Re: uneditable [OT]
Re: uneditable [OT]
- Subject: Re: uneditable [OT]
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 02 May 2013 09:45:15 -0700
- Thread-topic: uneditable [OT]
On 5/2/13 8:34 AM, "Axel Luttgens" <email@hidden> wrote:
> In fact, it is a matter of how words tend to be abbreviated in a language.
For
> example, how about "appli" in English?
It sounds French! In English, that is. (In French, it provides a second
syllable, which can now be stressed. That's probably what makes it more
comfortable for French speakers, where the last syllable of multisyllabic
words are always stressed, so it can participate in the flow of the
language, while "app" must sound abrupt and crude. Of course there are
monosyllabic words, including some nouns, in French, but fewer.) In English,
"appli", if pronounced as in French, would sound fancy or prissy, and
wouldn't be appropriate as an abbreviation of application, since it differs
from how we pronounce the "i" in the full word. And you could never, ever,
end the word in the short "i" sound - it just sounds all wrong; I don't
think there is any word in English that ends in a short "i" - you need a
following consonant to have that sound. You'd have to stress the first
syllable ("app") in English, and still pronounce "li" as "lee" - it just
doesn't sound like anything you'd use as an abbreviation for "application".
"App",in English, may sound like it's trying to be trendy, and lazy, to
old-fashioned ears, but is not offensive as in French. It's effective, you
get used to it and voilà - there it is! A word.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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