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http://www.xys.org/forum/db/8/18/130.html
http://www.xys.org/forum/db/8/15/2.html
http://www.xys.org/forum/db/8/13/177.html
http://www.xys.org/forum/db/8/11/221.html
http://www.xys.org/xys/ebooks/others/science/dajia11/w2.txt
http://www.xys.org/xys/ebooks/others/science/dajia11/w3.txt
http://www.xys.org/xys/ebooks/others/science/dajia11/w5.txt
http://www.xys.org/forum/db/8/11/79.html
http://www.xys.org/xys/ebooks/others/science/dajia11/w4.txt
http://xys.org/xys/ebooks/others/science/dajia11/w6.txt
http://xys.org/xys/ebooks/others/science/dajia11/w7.txt
始作俑者是一位杜克林先生
http://www.xys.org/xys/ebooks/others/science/dajia11/w.txt
http://xys.org/xys/ebooks/others/science/dajia11/w8.txt
这位仁兄以前在那里发过一些有关自己求职不遇的文章
http://xys.org/xys/ebooks/others/education/misc/haigui12.txt
http://xys.org/xys/ebooks/others/education/misc/haigui15.txt
http://www.xys.org/xys/ebooks/others/education/misc/haigui36.txt
给我的印象不怎么好,觉得他对自己高估了,也不大了解市面行情和别人想法。这次也是小题大做。
情形其实很简单:W 是 double U (至于为什么字形分明是 double V 却有 double U 的意义,我这里简单解释:拉丁文 U V 不分是同一个字母,后来有不同功能需要一分为三)照规则发音,b l 接着,停一停然后读 U, 有点太拗口,把 l 同 u 连起来比较顺所以发成 dub-liu; 但 l 在单词尾通常轻声或干脆省略如 apple simple ,所以 double U 也有人读 dub-u 甚至更偷懒读成 dub-ya; 美国总统布希 G W Bush 的外号就是 dubya; 四种发音都没错,不过近年来趋向是越来越偷懒,dub-liu 大概不如 dub-u 频繁但不算错误
另外举个例子 "got you" 现在几乎没人照规则发音,都是偷懒简化成 “gocha", 但也没人会觉得 got you 错误,少见而已
http://xys.org/forum/db/8/21/175.html 又有 h 发不发音的讨论;h 这个声音“可有可无“是有历史原因的。旧约神叫亚巴兰改名亚巴拉罕就是古犹太语言起初没有 h 音后来增加,同神名从耶娃(yawe)改成yahweh/yehovah 耶和华同时,原来神名是呼叫 IEOUA,长吟中间要乎吸一口气才能继续,这呼吸声后来发展成 h IEOUA 只有元音没有子音,而古 semite 语言没有母音字母,所以神名无法写,是无名之神,后来有了 h 再加上 y, w 等半子音字母写成 YHWH, 希腊人发明母音字母后才能写神名

Favorite Sayings:-
History repeats, first time as tragedy, second time as farce - Marx
Those who forget their history are condemned to repeat it - Santayana
Those who remember history are also condemned to repeat it - Yuen
Oscar Wilde was wrong about cynics knowing price not value; cynics know value is always less than price - Yuen
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Yuen Chung Kwong