Re: Swedish Chinese
| From: | Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, February 2, 2004, 19:57 |
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Quoting Pavel Iosad <edricson@...>:
> Hello,
>
> > In addition there's supposed to be a Chinese 2nd person
> > pronoun sounding much
> > like Swedish _ni_ "you" (pl and, obsoletishly, polite sg).
> > Any sinophone to remind me of the details?
>
> Yep, ni2, 'you (sg.)'. Also ni2men 'you (pl.)'.
>
> > demerged /l/ and /rl/ (used both to be [l_d] -
> > now [l_d] and [l`]). The later rather annoys me - dead
> > distinctions should stay dead!
>
> Really dead? I think our Swedish teacher (the one from Sweden, I mean)
> hasn't merged them. She's from Uppsala.
I never said it was dead in all 'lects - there are plenty of people who
distinguish them. Indeed, weren't there, I doubt I'd picked it up. While
spelling pronunciations are fairly widespread in Modern Swedish (as BP
complains about now and then), I doubt they're able to introduce new phones.
Andreas
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