Friday, October 16, 2009

That's YA, Alex!

The category is "I've got a 4-letter word for ya, pal!"

Alex pronounced it "for YOU".

That reduced "ya" is a clear signal that the stress is on "for" - and that there is no "U" to be heard. What's the point of spelling, if Alex is just going to ignore it?

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At 10:44 PM, October 16, 2009 Anonymous Anonymous had this to say...

I can't imagine that sentence being stressed on the word "for". Did you really mean that? Because to me, the sentence can only be stressed on the word "word", as in:

I'VE got a FOUR letter WORD for ya, PAL!

 
At 1:38 PM, October 17, 2009 Blogger The Ridger, FCD had this to say...

It's on the "for" in the "for ya" part of the sentence, though that's not the primary stress, you're right.

But it's not "I've got one for YOU", with "you" having the main stress of the whole sentence, which is how Alex said it.

 

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