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| re: Changes to Chorus Line at City Center | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 08:57 am EST 11/22/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Changes to Chorus Line at City Center - whereismikeyfl 08:32 am EST 11/22/18 | |
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| The vowels don't generally match up in colloquial speech. Toors vs. Yors. I think a lot of people would agree that a more "proper" pronunciation of "yours" honors the word "you" - i.e. Yoors, which would rhyme. But in plain speech most people don't do that. Well anyway, I think we can definitely all agree that "tours" and "mine" don't rhyme. ;-) Happy Thanksgiving! |
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| re: Changes to Chorus Line at City Center | |
| Posted by: whereismikeyfl 09:23 am EST 11/22/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Changes to Chorus Line at City Center - Chromolume 08:57 am EST 11/22/18 | |
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| Maybe its because I grew up in the northeast, but I thought the colloquial, more common pronunciations was "yoors." And even if you did usually speak a more clipped "yors", the elongated note in the song would stretch it into "yooors." But I am no Henry Higgins, so what do I know? |
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| re: Changes to Chorus Line at City Center | |
| Posted by: davei2000 09:54 am EST 11/22/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Changes to Chorus Line at City Center - whereismikeyfl 09:23 am EST 11/22/18 | |
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| I'd like to think I speak colloquially and conversationally, and I say them both in the "flattened" way. It's more "natural," as stated elsewhere in the thread. It never occurred to me that I'm not honoring "you"...Maybe if I'm speaking French I'll elongate the vowel in "tour." I'm not usually speaking French...:) | |
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| re: Changes to Chorus Line at City Center | |
| Posted by: whereismikeyfl 10:23 am EST 11/22/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Changes to Chorus Line at City Center - davei2000 09:54 am EST 11/22/18 | |
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| I am not sure what "flattened" means. I pronounce yours and tours to rhyme with Coors (as in beer). She pronounced "tour" as if it were "turd" without the "d" at the end. So now I am going to fixated on how people pronounce "tours" and "yours" and trying to figure out if you can describe how they speak as "flattened." Thank you, ATC. |
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| re: Changes to Chorus Line at City Center | |
| Posted by: whereismikeyfl 10:41 am EST 11/22/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Changes to Chorus Line at City Center - whereismikeyfl 10:23 am EST 11/22/18 | |
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| I deleted a sentence above where I said I talked to my neighbor this morning and she pronounced tours as if it were turd with an s instead of a d. I will never be able to follow the conversation at Thanksgiving today, since I will be listening for pronunciation. |
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| re: Changes to Chorus Line at City Center | |
| Last Edit: davei2000 11:50 am EST 11/22/18 | |
| Posted by: davei2000 11:46 am EST 11/22/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Changes to Chorus Line at City Center - whereismikeyfl 10:41 am EST 11/22/18 | |
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| I was using Chromolume's word, suggesting that it's like tor-yor. Tur sounds like squashing! But I'm sure - or is it shoor? - I use yur sometimes too in colloquial conversations... In any case it seems natural to me to make the words rhyme. Someone at ATC once complained that ballet is pronounced with different emphasis in different lines of "At the Ballet." That doesn't bother me, because I know I could pronounce it either - or i-ther! - way... |
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| re: Changes to Chorus Line at City Center | |
| Posted by: whereismikeyfl 12:07 pm EST 11/22/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Changes to Chorus Line at City Center - davei2000 11:46 am EST 11/22/18 | |
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| ATC can really hang you up the most. | |
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