[Grammar] Pronunciation of "GO"

[anupumh]

[QUOTE=raindoctor;529968]The diphthongs are different. AmE: oʊ BrE:əʊ

The american diphthong is unique..

[konungursvia]

Originally Posted by anupumh

I beg to disagree, AmE does not have a diphthong for "Go"

Well you are wrong. It is not a simple vowel, but a diphthong, here, in the word "go."

It's amazing that people have the gall to argue about things they don't have sufficient knowledge about.

[anupumh]

Originally Posted by konungursvia

Well you are wrong. It is not a simple vowel, but a diphthong, here, in the word "go."

It's amazing that people have the gall to argue about things they don't have sufficient knowledge about.

Yes my mistake and my apologies for it..
I never argued, seems your defination for argue is mutated.
I expressed my opinion, which was incorrect, agreed. however nobody is infallible..
I atleast have the guts to accept my mistakes or differences in opinion...

Lets come back to the point..

I have been told that diphthongs are a combination of vowel sounds (2 vowels gliding into each other), Now the american diphthong "oʊ" in GO..
what vowel sound is "o" stand for, in this diphthong..?
Is it a short vowel sound or a long vowel sound?
Does this vowel /o/ have its own existance, in which word do we find this vowel sound?

[konungursvia]

The digraphs representing diphthongs are necessarily rather approximate. I'm sure there are some dialects of English where it is found isolated. In Scottish English, for example. There are many French words that feature it by itself.

The so-called "short" and "long" vowels are often neither short nor long... any vowel quality may be pronounced as short or long in duration. The grammarians who brought the terms into English were simply imitating Roman grammarians; in Latin, there were short and long vowels that were actually shorter and longer.

In English, it's an unfortunate nomenclature that doesn't help much.

-- The Mutant

[anupumh]

Originally Posted by konungursvia

The digraphs representing diphthongs are necessarily rather approximate. I'm sure there are some dialects of English where it is found isolated. In Scottish English, for example. There are many French words that feature it by itself.

The so-called "short" and "long" vowels are often neither short nor long... any vowel quality may be pronounced as short or long in duration. The grammarians who brought the terms into English were simply imitating Roman grammarians; in Latin, there were short and long vowels that were actually shorter and longer.

In English, it's an unfortunate nomenclature that doesn't help much.

-- The Mutant

What do you think about the lax and tense nomenclature used my Americans to describe the vowel length/quality..?

[konungursvia]

Sorry, I don't understand your meaning.

[anupumh]

Originally Posted by konungursvia

Sorry, I don't understand your meaning.

I ve heard that Americans use the term Lax vowels for short vowel sounds and Tense vowels for long vowel sounds....

Which vowel nomenclature do you find the most appropriate??

[konungursvia]

It makes better sense to me than the long and short nomenclature.... but it's just one of many descriptors.

[LordJenkins]

Actually, the RP (O) ive heared prnounced by Southern Americans, Texans i think. They would say (go) in the posh way.