I was beginning to think something had gone wrong. I posted that last night and it hadn't shown up as of this morning. I'd better go transcribe it and post it to the poetry group.
I like that poem. I remember writing essays about Yeats' poems when I studied English.
I've worked out why your accent sounds different. You say 'ah' for a short 'o'. So you say 'swahn' and 'upahn'. And you say a long 'o' a bit differently too - it sounds like it has an 'eh' at the beginning of it. So 'own' sounds like 'eh-oon'. I know all American accents say both the short and long 'o' very differently from how English accents say them, but yours sounds a bit different from the other American accents I've heard. I guess I haven't heard the Chicago accent before. :-)
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Date: 2006-12-14 01:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-14 01:31 am (UTC)I was beginning to think something had gone wrong. I posted that last night and it hadn't shown up as of this morning. I'd better go transcribe it and post it to the poetry group.
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Date: 2006-12-14 01:51 am (UTC)I've worked out why your accent sounds different. You say 'ah' for a short 'o'. So you say 'swahn' and 'upahn'. And you say a long 'o' a bit differently too - it sounds like it has an 'eh' at the beginning of it. So 'own' sounds like 'eh-oon'. I know all American accents say both the short and long 'o' very differently from how English accents say them, but yours sounds a bit different from the other American accents I've heard. I guess I haven't heard the Chicago accent before. :-)