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

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Carsten Becker <post@B...> wrote:

> Jake X wrote:
> > And speaking of mispronouncing my name, it
> > happens to also mean jacket in German.  Since my
> > last name is Schneider, that makes me Jacket
> > Tailor.
>
> No, that's not true! <Jacke> is pronounced /%jAk@/. /dZ/ only appears in
> loanwords from e.g. English, Italian or Indian languages. But that joke
> would be understood, of course!
Well, the whole point was about pronouncing English words as
if they were foreign, so yeah, Jake knows that |j| is /j/ in
German.  If you want to be technical, however, |Jake| would be
/'ja:k@/ rather than /'jak@/.



-- Christian Thalmann