Re: VW (was: Digest 2 Apr)
| From: | David Peterson <digitalscream@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 5, 2001, 22:50 |
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In a message dated 4/5/01 1:48:17 PM, theiling@ABSINT.DE writes:
<< This is quiet funny sometimes. E.g. a friend of mine once practised
for an exam trying to get the correct pronunciation of the above. He
tried `vine' and `wine'. Interestingly, `wine' was easy, `vine' was
impossible. More interestingly, `wine' in German is `Wein' and is
pronounced [vaIn]. >>
I've had the exact same experience with German speakers I know. It's also
funny to me how my grandma (Mexican) pronounces "chair" as [SEr], since they
have a [tS] in their language, and even looks orthographically exactly the
same. But, I'v heard that's common, so what can one say?
-David
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