Post by Barrigard on Dec 21, 2006 10:14:22 GMT -6
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English 11-Young Final
APO-CRYPHAL: A Phonetic Conundrum
In today’s modern educational system the English department at Hamilton Southeastern High School has without proper announcement to the student changed the pronunciation of the word APOCRYPHAL. Originally pronounced apoc-ryphal, the emphasis has now been moved to just after the O, creating the pronunciation APO-CRYPHAL. Though any intelligent student can easily understand the difference and recognize the fact that it is the former word apocryphal, a small few with a bit too much time on their hands have decided to object this unauthorized butchering of common English pronunciation.
“This goes beyond just an accent where the emphasis and interpretation of vowel sounds differs significantly from region to region, but this is a direct changing of the proper dictionary pronunciation.” says HSE Junior Stephen Wallace. “It’s absolutely idiotic.”
Wallace however has had some history of objection to unorthodox approaches to what he sees as the proper English language. In a recent event the very definition of a word has been changed on a vocabulary quiz to its opposite meaning. The word was immutable, which under normal dictionaries means “Not subject or susceptible to change.” according to dictionary.com. On this quiz the correct answer was to match the opposite definition with that word due to process of elimination. When Wallace inquired as to why this was he was he was answered with “I’m an English Major, take your seat.”.
Not all the students feel so strongly about the semantics of vocabulary. “I think there are bigger fish to fry.” Said Junior Barry Donnelly “I got the answer right because of process of elimination; I just trusted that the author of the test knew what he was talking about despite my gut instinct.” It seems as if the whole issue is one big sardine fry, what this issue really needs so delicious %. We really don’t get enough delicious % in English controversy.
BRÜGENHAGEN! incorporated has decided to use the controversy to further their own publicity by holding an online poll and spamming over several different internet sites to get a consensus on what people feel about the issue.
See you in summer English!
978878
English 11-Young Final
APO-CRYPHAL: A Phonetic Conundrum
In today’s modern educational system the English department at Hamilton Southeastern High School has without proper announcement to the student changed the pronunciation of the word APOCRYPHAL. Originally pronounced apoc-ryphal, the emphasis has now been moved to just after the O, creating the pronunciation APO-CRYPHAL. Though any intelligent student can easily understand the difference and recognize the fact that it is the former word apocryphal, a small few with a bit too much time on their hands have decided to object this unauthorized butchering of common English pronunciation.
“This goes beyond just an accent where the emphasis and interpretation of vowel sounds differs significantly from region to region, but this is a direct changing of the proper dictionary pronunciation.” says HSE Junior Stephen Wallace. “It’s absolutely idiotic.”
Wallace however has had some history of objection to unorthodox approaches to what he sees as the proper English language. In a recent event the very definition of a word has been changed on a vocabulary quiz to its opposite meaning. The word was immutable, which under normal dictionaries means “Not subject or susceptible to change.” according to dictionary.com. On this quiz the correct answer was to match the opposite definition with that word due to process of elimination. When Wallace inquired as to why this was he was he was answered with “I’m an English Major, take your seat.”.
Not all the students feel so strongly about the semantics of vocabulary. “I think there are bigger fish to fry.” Said Junior Barry Donnelly “I got the answer right because of process of elimination; I just trusted that the author of the test knew what he was talking about despite my gut instinct.” It seems as if the whole issue is one big sardine fry, what this issue really needs so delicious %. We really don’t get enough delicious % in English controversy.
BRÜGENHAGEN! incorporated has decided to use the controversy to further their own publicity by holding an online poll and spamming over several different internet sites to get a consensus on what people feel about the issue.
See you in summer English!