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playBunny:Thanks good Bunny. I now have a very good image of what I say transferes to others. Yes. i was talking about the nagative questions, not eating dinner! So based on what you say:
If I ask " Isn't he out of town?" or "Is he not out of town?" the hearer gets the same impression, but if I ask "Is he not out of town?" it gives the hearer the impression that I expected the person I am asking my question about, he, to be out of town and now I'm perhaps surprised at hearing that he's not.
R's! Well, I know that British people drop R's everywhere in a word except where they're followed by a vowel. So "car" is actually /ka:/ while "car accident" is /ka:r aeksident/. So I was wondering if in the States there are people who speak like that.
playBunny: This time I got the joke part. However, my Oxford Dictionary does say that the 'r' in 'word' can be omitted! And so can be both R's in 'furthermore.'
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