Talk:gracile
Latest comment: 4 years ago by Sgconlaw in topic Pronunciation audio file
Anthropological meaning edit
This word has a special, specific meaning in anthropology. 184.77.159.253 14:54, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
Done: added. — SGconlaw (talk) 20:48, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
Pronunciation audio file edit
@Erutuon, Guiri Falso: isn't it RP? Sounds like RP to me. — SGconlaw (talk) 07:54, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
- @Sgconlaw: It's "modern RP" and RP as we use the term elsewhere but I didn't want to argue. It doesn't have the fronted and raised short a of classical 20th century RP (almost [ɛ]), if that's what User:Guiri Falso was getting at. — Eru·tuon 17:37, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
- @Erutuon: right … I would have thought that our RP transcriptions reflect how RP is pronounced today, rather than how Queen Elizabeth II sounded in 1952 when she first ascended the throne. After all, I think we prefer /æ/ to /a/ in contrast to the OED. — SGconlaw (talk) 19:05, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
- @Sgconlaw: Yeah, so I've gone and re-labeled it as RP, despite Wonderfool's objection. — Eru·tuon 22:39, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
- Yeah, Wonderfool was getting at that, like "oi, I do not sound that posh!"!!! --Gorgehater (talk) 22:49, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
- @Sgconlaw: Yeah, so I've gone and re-labeled it as RP, despite Wonderfool's objection. — Eru·tuon 22:39, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
- @Erutuon: right … I would have thought that our RP transcriptions reflect how RP is pronounced today, rather than how Queen Elizabeth II sounded in 1952 when she first ascended the throne. After all, I think we prefer /æ/ to /a/ in contrast to the OED. — SGconlaw (talk) 19:05, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
