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eekbeat and I had the pleasure of joining will and BR tonight for dinner in Richmond. The official report: huzzah! We had a blast, and the sneaky BR-will conspiracy squad even managed to pay the tab on a purported mission to the bathroom. (Thanks again!)
Among the weighty and important subjects that crossed our conversational plates was, of course, unfogged.
I noticed that will seems to pronounce it UN-fogged, but I have always said un-FOGged (kind of dropping off at the end*). Of course, I'd never be one to norm anyone's pronunciation, but I'm curious what other people say, since it's not really a common word outside the keyb0ard-addicted many who utter its syllables.
Masses: what say you?
*eekbeat, teo, et. al.: don't cut me if this linguistic phenomenon has a name that I don't know of; rather, share!
Among the weighty and important subjects that crossed our conversational plates was, of course, unfogged.
I noticed that will seems to pronounce it UN-fogged, but I have always said un-FOGged (kind of dropping off at the end*). Of course, I'd never be one to norm anyone's pronunciation, but I'm curious what other people say, since it's not really a common word outside the keyb0ard-addicted many who utter its syllables.
Masses: what say you?
*eekbeat, teo, et. al.: don't cut me if this linguistic phenomenon has a name that I don't know of; rather, share!
posted by Stanley at 00:16
6 Comments:
I suspect that the correct way is to say unf-OGGED. As everyone certainly knows, in Farsi the stress is on the final syllable for nouns.
But, I prefer to view it as a place to achieve clarity. Thus, UN-fogged.
BR and I had a great time, but still didnt solve that one riddle that befuddles us: Why is the fabulous eekbeat with Stanley?!?!?!?!?
We kid. We kid.
The 'o' is not pronounced: "unf'ged".
I put the accent on the second syllable, which is the usual way a word like that is accented in English. The third syllable seems to trail off because there isn't a third syllable; it's a two-syllable word ending in a consonant cluster and the "e" is purely orthographic.
Ooh, thanks for the technical explanation, teo. I didn't mean to imply that there's a third syllable, but rather that in the second syllable the F and the G seem to get more emphasis than the D. I don't know if there's a name for this or if it's just like a "well, yeah, duh" sort of thing.
I think that's probably just because the second consonant in a syllable-ending cluster comes at the very end of the syllable and less energy gets put into it than into the other consonants.
So, basically, a "yeah, duh" thing.
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