(March 7, 2013 at 6:26 am)Justtristo Wrote:(March 6, 2013 at 6:31 pm)ManMachine Wrote: I get how the sources might suggest pronunciation, but where on Earth did those accents come from?
I'm not convinced.
MM
We have writings from the period which shows us how words were being pronounced Also there are verses in Shakespeare's works which don't rhyme in modern pronunciation, however they do in the pronunciation which has been figured out.
I understand what is being said about the research into pronunciation of individual words but most of the linguistic tools we use today to analyse this information were developed post-Elizabethan times.
Individual words aside, putting words together in longer phrases has an effect on how they are sounded, are we really so sure of the the overall phonetic structure and sentence phrasing that gives us accent or are we stringing individual sounded words together, because the latter is not accent. I remain unconvinced.
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"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
