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
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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".
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