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美国人有的时候听不出coffee 和 copy ，F 和 P 你有念混淆吗？
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只需要听写嘉宾的话，主持人的话不需要听写。不需要听写的句子如下：
主持人的话①"As were we right now."
主持人的话② "So copy -- there are some Americans who say 'coffee' and 'copy' the same?"
主持人的话③Yet there may be more and more misunderstandings. Professor Labov says many local dialects are dying out and regional ones are growing stronger.
HINTS
gee
Pittsburgh or from Montreal.
Someone says gee, I got to find a coffee shop, and someone said but you already had your coffee. The people who would normally expect that copy shop would be different from coffee shop are quite confused when they enter an area where both are pronounced with the same vowel.
Well, the vowel will be the same; the p and f differences are hardly worth noticing in rapid speech. But the vowels will be identical for the people who come from Pittsburgh or from Montreal.
People have a great tendency to think our language works better than it does. So when we ask people to keep track of the number of misunderstandings that occur in the course of a day, there are quite a few. But if you ask them to remember them, they don't.
We have plenty of real-time studies to show that these changes are moving on so that the dialects of the United States are more different from each other now than they were 100 years ago. | 
发表于 2016-8-2 13:09:36