American D for T

[nq:1]priddy, wadder, etc. Can anyone point me to some advice, techniques, and so on, for training myself to STOP talking this way? (It's embarrasses me.)[/nq]
It embarrasses you to talk like everyone around you? Do you think they have special expectations of you that they don't have of everyone else?

This is how these words are pronounced in American English. They are spelled as they

[nq:2]priddy, wadder, etc. Can anyone point me to some advice, techniques, and so on, for training myself to STOP talking this way? (It's embarrasses me.)[/nq]
[nq:1]It embarrasses you to talk like everyone around you? Do you think they have special expectations of you that they ... its German equivalent "licht", closer to the pronunciations these words had centuries ago, that are still reflec

: both /t/ and /d/ are widespread dialect variants in such words, but /'mAk@/ for is, so far as I know, strictly historical.
Brian

[nq:2]It embarrasses you to talk like everyone around you? Do you think they have special expectations of you that they don't have of everyone else?[/nq]
[nq:1]Embarrassment needn't derive from the expectations of others; one's own expectations can be sufficient.[/nq]
I think "embarrassment" implies at least a projection of one's own expectations onto others. It would be difficult to be em

[nq:2]priddy, wadder, etc. Can anyone point me to some advice, techniques, and so on, for training myself to STOP talking this way? (It's embarrasses me.)[/nq]
[nq:1]It embarrasses you to talk like everyone around you? Do you think they have special expectations of you that they don't have of everyone else?[/nq]
I don't live in the USA now.

[nq:2]No, these aren't comparable to the use of (t) in ... for is, so far as I know, strictly historical.[/nq]
[nq:1]The case of a historical pronunciation that has been replaced IS the case of dialectal variations, just at a later stage where the preponderance of the newer variation has reached 100%. [/nq]
But synchronically using an early Middle English
pronunciation of is a very d

Then I think that you and I just have a different definition for the word "embarrassed".
[nq:2]*I* would certainly wonder what an American who walked around saying "preTTy" and the like was up to.[/nq]
[nq:1]Probably just as well that you've not heard me. [/nq]
Granted, if I were emphasizing the word I'd have (t). "Hey, that's PRETTY good!"
[nq:2]The case of a historical pronunciat

[nq:2]It embarrasses you to talk like everyone around you? Do you think they have special expectations of you that they don't have of everyone else?[/nq]
[nq:1]I don't live in the USA now.[/nq]
Well, in that case, is it your goal to adopt the accent of your neighbors altogether? Or do they seem to look down on just that one element of your speech? Is it any comfort that they talk funny too

[nq:1]priddy, wadder, etc. Can anyone point me to some advice, techniques, and so on, for training myself to STOP talking this way? (It's embarrasses me.)[/nq]
I don't know. On American television, it's usually the perverted *** murderer who says "pritty".
But it's the good-looking manly cowboy who says "wadder". Cool wadder.
[nq:1]Thanks[/nq]
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[nq:1]Then I think that you and I just have a different definition for the word "embarrassed".[/nq]
I define it in terms of the felt emotion; don't you? My guess is that I simply have a wider (or at least slightly different) range of triggers.

Brian