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

Jake X wrote:

>>Jake X wrote:
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>>>>From: "James Worlton" <JWorlton@...>
>>>>Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 5:35 PM
>>>>Subject: Re: CHAT: F.L.O.E.S.
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>>>>>"Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:
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>>>>>I don't know how common this FLOES is, but
>>>>>its inverse is all too common: FLUES, (Under-Exposure),
>>>>>where people pronounce foreign words as if
>>>>>they were English. Drives me nuts.
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>>>>Especially when you pronounce French or Italian loanwords or names as if
>>>>they were German, as a former classmate of mine. Awful!
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>>In my opinion, if they actually have been integrated into the language,
>>adopting it into the native pronunciation is acceptable(It would wreck
>>German's regularised spelling, otherwise). Pronouncing names wrong is
>>unacceptable.  My pet hate is pronouncing 'Schröder' as [Sr\@ud@]. My
>>whole German class seems to be under the impression that Umlauts are for
>>ignoring.
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>Mine as well.  They've had five years, and they still don't understand the
>difference, when our teacher pronounces it, between schon and schön.
>It's horrible.
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>That and their awful American |r|s.
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Yes, well, in a non -Rhotic country, that's not a problem.  On the other
hand, pronouncing 'der' as [d3:] is not on.  By the way - how do Germans
generally pronounce word-final /r/?

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