Re: OT: Spanish "me da feliz"
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 8, 2008, 3:20 |
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On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 1:00 PM, ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...> wrote:
> Mark Reed wrote:
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> > So is rhyming/scansion the only reason the song doesn't say "Prospero
> > año y feliz"? :)
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> I'm not sure which song you're referring to....
"Feliz Navidad". The line is "Feliz Navidad, prospero año y felicidad..."
>(Or maybe féliz is changing to felíz thanks to the song 'felíz
Navidad.......')??
? Sp. "feliz" *is* /fe'liz/. The pronunciation in the song is correct.
Words that end in a consonant other than <n> or <s> have ultimate
stress. (And the fact that the <z> is pronounced as [s] in Latin
American Spanish doesn't mean it counts as <s> for this purpose)
--
Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
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