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Re: OT: Spanish "me da feliz"

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Thursday, May 8, 2008, 3:20
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 1:00 PM, ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...> wrote:
> Mark Reed wrote: > > > > > So is rhyming/scansion the only reason the song doesn't say "Prospero > > año y feliz"? :) > > > > > 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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