Lee, Subject Line changed to unbend Frank's thread.
Your last post is such a wonderful example of itself, I will leave it as the last word on the subject of language education and orthography. (which, come to think of it, has not very much to do with the "spelling of Spanish surnames." By the way. How do you pronounce "Yeah"? Better, what does it rhyme with? Or does it have two pronunciations, one in the double positive expression that conveys a negative (Yeah, yeah!), another in the sentence, "Ted Williams hit a home run and all the fans cried out, "Yeah!"? Perhaps we need a little squiggle to indicate tone, as in Chinese. So \YEAH\ would be the double negative and /YEAH/ with be the cheer. Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 2:16 PM To: Friam; Nick Thompson Subject: Re: [FRIAM] QRE: Spelling of Spanish Surnames Nick: > Nyaaah! Nyaaah! As we used to say when we were six. In 1968, my then-girlfriend (long since become a Mad Bomber at Los Alamos--her graduate degree was in astrophysics) provided what is has just now become fresh evidence of something-or-other relevant to this thread: having learned that expression only from books (no, she wasn't any kind of funny furriner; she was a good Irish-descended girl from Maryland, who had gone to Mt. Holyoke before graduate school at Columbia) she pronounced that as "nie-ah, nie-ah". ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
