However, when i talk to friends, i never get such positive comments.
Please don't ask separate questions in one thread. I have moved the last question to a new thread.
I find this kind of argument arrogant and very rude. You're leaving the other discussant with a title: "Read this and leave me alone. I'm right." The book may be in German or Old Church Slavonic and available in one library in Brunei -- does it matter? It's not your business to make sure the other person can find and understand the book.So, we are left with no other choices between these two extremes! Not many believe in that hypothesis, though.
For instance, Karl Marldot and Charles-James Bailey came up with a book for English pronunciation, which includes many heuristics from Old, Middle English, etc. So, I don't need to argue further about the importance of whatever I said earlier.
Their book is: Grundzuge der englischen Phonetologie: Allgemeine Systematik
I hope that all of us who respond to questions are here to help the many people who read these threads - one minute ago, when I checked, this thread had been viewed 622 times. Most of the hundreds of people who come to this forum do not have access to the books that are mentioned, so it seems to be reasonable to give some idea of what is said in any book we mention. Merely saying, "Karl Marldot and Charles-James Bailey came up with a book for English pronunciation, which includes many heuristics from Old, Middle English, etc" does not give us any helpful information.In the first place, I was responding to the OP. If the original poster wanted to take the matter further, I would have continued the discussion. I am not here to convince moderators and other teachers, who can do their own research.
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