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Post by Little Jack Horner on Oct 23, 2018 12:11:28 GMT
On thinking about the Jaguar pronunciation, and on reflection, I think the South American pronunciation is more like HA-hwar. I have little idea of the international phonetic alphabet and even less ability to locate and insert the symbols here.
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Post by Verbivore on Oct 26, 2018 9:43:32 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on Oct 29, 2018 20:21:51 GMT
Uncouth bacilliThe ABC’s language researcher, Tiger Webb, bangs on in favour of apostrophic abolitionism. It is only under the incumbency of TW that Aunty has abandoned well-written English; we now have a subliterate hodge-podge where in the same article we can see practice and practise as both noun and verb; similarly licence/ license; not to mention myriad daily plain misspellings. Mr Webb, a casual acquaintance of mine, is very knowledgeable on language but takes what I regard as a cavalier attitude toward its written form. His predecessor at the ABC took a far more traditional approach; consequently Aunty writ things proper. An organ that once set the benchmark for other news sources has dropped its guard so low that even Murdoch's tits-and-bums scandal sheets do a better job of orthography.
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Post by Little Jack Horner on Oct 30, 2018 12:56:08 GMT
I put all these modernisms down to global warming or the hole in the ozone layer. These problems never seemed to arise in my young days. ☹️
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Post by Verbivore on Oct 30, 2018 20:35:53 GMT
I put all these modernisms down to global warming or the hole in the ozone layer. These problems never seemed to arise in my young days. ☹️ I blame a hole in the teaching system and the proliferation of unmoderated garbage published via the internet: monkey see, monkey do (and monkey type). I'm sure that the "modernisms" arose in earlier times; it's just that once there were proofreaders … I used to have some interesting correspondence with Tiger Webb's predecessor. While she was not an absolute prescriptivist she did insist that Aunty's style guide was there for a reason, and insisted its guidance be followed. Now it's a free-for-all mess. I don't even bother writing to Aunty any more; there's no point when a Tiger prowls the halls of orthography.
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