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[fox]

to: everyone
from: fox

please pronounce the word tour correctly. the vowel is the same as the vowel in lure, not the vowel in lore. (the same is true of sure, by the way -- it is not pronounced the same way as shore.) i know it's spelled just like four, which really does rhyme with lore -- sorry about that. but, please, from this language, what did you expect?

thank you.

Comments

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

foofy linguistic answer: "valid" is a prescriptive word, and we don't like to use it any more than is absolutely necessary. any pronunciation produced and understood by native speakers is considered to be -- used and understood by native speakers.

this gets a little fluffy after a point. there are standards, no matter what the descriptivists say. now, the standard variety of a language may not be "better" than non-standard varieties, in a value-judgment sort of way, but yeah, there's a standard. if nothing else, there's a dialect that's spoken more widely and/or by a larger percentage of the population than any other. so the pronunciations and sentence structures observed in the most common or standard dialect are often considered "correct".


but what i was going for here was the Fox Is Getting Irritated answer. :-D

[king-chiron.livejournal.com]

So it all comes down to a pronunciation popularity contest?

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

that's one way of looking at it, i suppose.