0298 – Purposeful Mis-Intonation

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2021.10.25 – 0298 – Purposeful Mis-Intonation

It’s similar in this e-learning script: “Human beings inhales mainly oxygen and exhales mainly carbon dioxide…” – we might normally say ex-HALE, but because of its contrast with an earlier word we say EX-hale.

And on this government website: “… whether it’s national or international trade…” – instead of the more usual pronunciation of inter-NATIONAL, we say INTER-national so it contrasts with the NATIONAL mentioned previously.

Or this training ‘pitch’ video: “We have supported personal growth in teams of various sizes, at profit and non-profit organisations…” – if you were asked who you worked for you might reply that it was a NON-PROFIT group. In this context, you keep the colour on the NON and erase it from the PROFIT, so the NON stands out in the context of the sentence.

Or with this eco company: “Our mantra is to use and re-use…” - usually you may say that you re-USE your teabags, but the contrast here distracts that, to sound natural, you lift then prefix RE instead.

On a school ‘behaviour’ notice for pupils: “Be helpful rather than unhelpful…” – if the sentence was “all children are unhelpful”, the weight would be “unHELPful”. To signpost the sense in this sentence though, you are contrasting the balance between those who are assisting and those who are not, by colouring it thus: UNhelpful.

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