Timeline for Why are all acronyms accented on the last syllable?
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| Oct 25, 2012 at 11:52 | comment | added | Matt E. Эллен | I disagree, @Kris. Disagreeing with the premise of a question is fine to do in an answer. | |
| Oct 25, 2012 at 11:28 | comment | added | Kris | @MattЭллен If he has made a comment stating "the question is based on a wrong premise," that would be a different matter. Stating so in an answer is not appropriate I believe. (He would have saved the effort of setting out such a long answer and ending up earning down votes.) | |
| Oct 25, 2012 at 10:01 | comment | added | user21497 | So has NoAmE imported that annoyance. But if you ask the antipodeans themselves, they'll more than likely say they speak BrE, Australian/New Zealand variety, even if only to distinguish those varieties from AmE. All of them, of course, are unique and different from each other (but you'd all probably say different to). Even AmE used to be BrE once upon a time. | |
| Oct 25, 2012 at 8:44 | comment | added | Andrew Leach♦ | Aha. Yes, antipodean English is not British, although BrE has imported the Australian Interrogative Ending where statements sound like questions? | |
| Oct 25, 2012 at 8:41 | comment | added | user21497 | @Andrew Leach: I have to blame something, & being a BrE speaker from Oz or Kiwiland is often a reason for differences in the stress, pronunciation, and preposition use by NoAmE English speakers. It doesn't always work, however. I've also noticed over the past 3 months, that you, Barrie England, & some other BrE speakers frequently say that what seems unheard of for AmE speakers is often standard for BrE speakers. Anyway, I wanted to point out that it's bad form to disparage with the label silly how speakers of other dialects use the language. As if there were a world standard. | |
| Oct 25, 2012 at 8:29 | comment | added | J.R. | Food fight? "Hey, hey, calm down, you two... it's a floor wax, and a dessert topping!" Give this IBM commercial a watch. Six seconds in, the narrator says IB^M PS^2, supporting the O.P.'s assertion. But near the end, the same speaker says "^IBM authorized dealer," much like Blessed Geek might say it. Maybe some acronyms shift the syllable of emphasis based on surrounding words, and whether they're used in a sentence or question? | |
| Oct 25, 2012 at 8:13 | comment | added | Andrew Leach♦ | @BillFranke How did you get to Blessed Geek being a speaker of BrE? I don't recognise any of those pronunciations. | |
| Oct 25, 2012 at 7:41 | comment | added | Matt E. Эллен | @Kris why should it be a comment first? That makes no sense. | |
| Oct 25, 2012 at 6:36 | comment | added | Kris | This could have been made as a brief comment first. | |
| Oct 25, 2012 at 5:23 | comment | added | user21497 | @jamaicanworm: How can you disagree with what someone reports as fact? Blessed Geek is obviously not a speaker of AmE but of BrE and lives not in the USA but somewhere else where people actually speak the way he says they do. I think you're both being a bit unreasonable here. Food fight, anyone? | |
| Oct 25, 2012 at 5:19 | comment | added | user21497 | What dialect of English do you speak? What dialect do you hear every day? Sounds like the OP was referring to typical Midwestern AmE & not BrE or the AmE spoken in the USA's southeast. The OP also said "...almost always the last syllable is accented". Notice the important qualifier almost. Therefore, the OP's observation is accurate enough. | |
| Oct 25, 2012 at 5:18 | comment | added | jamaicanworm | Haha I guess there must be some element of subjectivity--I disagree with most of your examples. I've always heard IB^M (do you really say ^IBM? it sounds funny), and FB^I. | |
| Oct 25, 2012 at 4:55 | history | answered | Blessed Geek | CC BY-SA 3.0 |