Re: Trademarks

YHL wrote:
>>>(I am loath to include anything I can't yet pronounce reliably).
>>
>>Well, I also tend not to design anything I can't pronounce;
>>however, I have trained my tongue a bit and can pronounce quite much
>>stuff which is not in any natlang I have yet learned.
>>
>You are more fortunate than I.  :-p  I figure that as long as I can't
>reliably pronounce the !@#$ alveolar trill I'm going to be hopeless at
>everything else...<sigh>  Maybe in another 10 years I'll have some sort of
>handle on it.  Dammit, my tongue isn't that flexible...the vowels aren't
>too hard to pick up, but the consonants...that and the fact that while I
>love speaking German, it gives me a sore throat very rapidly.
Sore throat from speaking German? From what?

But I maybe shouldn't say to much since my German teachers (both the guy who
don't believe in low rounded vowels and the German one) tell be that I
preferably shouldn't use any retroflex trills when speaking German (however,
tho' I still can't make uvuluar r's reliably, I can at least do those
vocalized ones nowadays, so I'm improving).

                                                 Andreas

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