Re: [Dacco-users] Phrasal verbs V

[Lou H. <so...@vi...>]

At 10:30 02/03/06 +0100, Jonathan Kaye wrote:
>Lou Hevly ha escrit a 02/03/06 09:34:
> >>> mellow out|5|posar-se menys seriós, prendre les coses amb més 
> calma
> >> I think this is AmE; if used in BrE, then with some deliberate and
> >> maybe self-mocking allusion to American style.
> >
> > As when Americans, in a "deliberate and maybe self-mocking allusion 
> to
> > British style", say "it's a pity" (with unvoiced ts).
>I'm sorry Lou. You lost me there.

Sorry.  I should have put quote marks around my "t".  Americans 
pronounce "bitter" "bidder";  we generally voice an intervocalic "t" so 
that it sounds like a "d".  But when we imitate British speech, we are 
careful to pronounce our "t"s properly: "It's a pity", not, as would be 
idiomatic for us, "Idza piddy".

Though "It's a pity" is, AFAIK, never used in AmE; we say "Too bad".

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All the best (Adéu-siau),
Lou Hevly
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