Re: CHAT: F.L.O.E.S.

 --- Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:

> Also, how do Downundrians pronounce "IKEA"? Some
> monstrosity like [ajki:@], no
> doubt? (Swedish [Ike:a])
Either /Aik@i.@/ (i.e. the Australianisation of what
you first wrote) or /AikI:/ (to rhyme with beer,
idea). I have no idea which is the more common.
(Phonetically of course it has suitable amounts of
aspiration and palatisation on the /k/; word-final /@/
tends to be realised as [a] speshly phrase-finally,
and /I:/ is realised as [Ia] prase finally by me (but
the phoneme turns up monophthongal more frequently and
it patterns as a long monophthong).)

[Ike:a] is, of course, forbidden on the grounds that
two vowels cannot come together in reasonable
languages! (the closest I can manage is [Ik_he:ja]).
Why on earth they bother with /Ai/ instead of our own
perfectly usable /I/ I have no idea. (That is to say,
I'm guessing it's because that's what happens in every
other English-speaking country, but why bother in the
first place?)

(I can't speak for Kiwis who also earn the title of
Downundrian, but cennot speak @ngl@sh properly.)

--
Tristan.

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