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To: Thom A. Shulok who wrote (791)	1/20/1998 8:36:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Respond to of 4710

>barbarism< Just thought you might like to know - Penni's from Texas. So... even if the long I was chosen, no diphthong would necessarily be invoked. Thus evening out the level of effort. Especially in Texas, where the "schwa" of a short i can last a coupla seconds. Short-laaaahved. Psst - hey Penni (munch) have some of the ear... :-)

To: Thom A. Shulok who wrote (791)	1/20/1998 11:11:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4710

Hi Thom, What exactly is predictive linguistics? And how does one study it? It sounds fascinating! I agree with you that the long i is a much more difficult sound to produce (even with a VIRGINIAN accent, not that I have any accent at all, but most emphatically not a Texas one) and it is due to your "path of least resistance" that words change. I confess that I have never used the word with a long i but I'm not sure that the long i is more difficult because of the glottis. My guess would be that it's harder because it's a diphthong, and involves the tongue moving during the production to create the two sounds where the short i requires only one. But that's just my guess. Are we an isolated group of overachieving barbaric types here? That's the most exciting thing anyone's said about me in a long time. Are you a graduate of Va Tech?