Comments on: The content-personality continuum of blogs (and a blog-meme)

By: 8 Random Facts… « Aspiring Polyglot

8 Random Facts… « Aspiring Polyglot — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:50:28 +0000

[...] I thought I’d reply to the meme that the bloggers of Confessions of a Language Addict and Linguistic Mystic tagged me [...]

By: Language Geek - 8 facts about me

Language Geek - 8 facts about me — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 13:34:03 +0000

[...] but if you read this and want to do it, consider yourself tagged by me. Here are the rules from Linguistic Mystic: 1. We have to post these rules before we give you the facts. 2. Players start with eight random [...]

By: GeoffB

GeoffB — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 07:45:57 +0000

Just stumbled on this today, finally, and have posted my response.

Interesting info.

GeoffB – Confessions of a Language Addict

By: will

will — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 01:04:34 +0000

(Other) will, nicely done. Being a caught-cot merger, I didn’t even think that there were people who pronounced the two differently in terms of the vowels. If you pronounce cot and caught differently, you’ll likely pronounce cock and caulk differently as well.

However, I have stumbled across people who will pronounce the L and say /cawlk/, no matter the middle vowel.

Very nice catch, and a little highlighting of my own personal language biases. I’m glad I’ve got my readers keeping me on my toes :)

By: (other) Will

(other) Will — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:46:38 +0000

I pronounce “caulk” without the l, but it’s still different from “cock”. Is this just another example of the caught-cot distinction? Or have I been mispronouncing “caulk” my entire life?

By: ILikePi

ILikePi — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:25:46 +0000

Agreed, you made an excellent compromise between the two ends of the continuum. Great post. :)

By: Damien Riley

Damien Riley — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:17:00 +0000

Great meme! You made it just enough out of your normal routine and made it fun for the reader!