Date:    Fri, 29 May 1998 17:09:06 -0400
<br>From:    David Bergdahl <bergdahl[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OAK.CATS.OHIOU.EDU>
<br>Subject: Re: kleenex, sheetrock, and dragon systems; emoticon
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<br>On Fri, 29 May 1998, Alan Baragona wrote:
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<br>> Oops. Let me revise that.  The pronunciation I was taught by the computer
<br>> geek had the lax /I/, not the diphthong, which is what I was looking at, but
<br>> not the /mat/.  So I pronounce it /i.'mot.I.kan/.
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<br>I'm surprised at all these intervocalic T's!! This qtr I was interviewed
<br>by a TESOL student who had just returned from seven years in Indonesia.
<br>When I mentioned the term he wrote down "emodican"    :-)   I say [i 'mod
<br>[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE] kan], obviously.
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