Re: venge of the Mutant Ninja Consonants (Re: mutation?

jjbowks@adam.cheshire.net writes:
>Another sad show of this mutating consonantal change
>in Spanish is the "th" sound in Andalusia. There are
>such pressures to talk "Castillian" that you hear the
>"th" sound used all the time instead of the appropriate
>"s" sound in words which should have the "s" and not
>the "z" or "ce, ci". I find this very annoying ;-) And pick
>on my cousins a lot about it.
My friend Ann, who is fluent in Spanish (She's not a native speaker BTW),
tends to do that to all of her "s" sounds (except of course her initial
"s"). So, she'll say something like: "Loth cathath son muy bonitath". It's
odd and it's more of a fusion between /T/ and /s/.  She swears that she
doesnt do it but we all hear it when she speaks it.




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