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Re: Cracked.com attacks pedophilia--my analysis

Posted by NFiH on Saturday, September 4 2010 at 09:59:02pm
In reply to Cracked.com attacks pedophilia--my analysis posted by Dissident on Saturday, September 4 2010 at 11:58:21am

Nabakov's classic.
The name is Nabokov. And this second syllable is stressed (Nabókov, not Nábokov).

I would suggest "talk of" or "balk of" as more closely conforming to the stressed middle vowel of that awkward name ("Nabawkof"). I once composed the following rhyme for my students:

The querulous gawk of
A heron at night
Prompts Nabokov
To write


(Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions, p. 302)


Of course, this transcription works only for those speakers of (American) English that don't have the COT/CAUGHT merger.



Surf safe;)
NFiH

NFiH

I have seen the birth of bad
I have seen the declining tracks
I have seen the madness in my area


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