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

On Thursday, February 26, 2004, at 01:50  AM, Tristan McLeay wrote:
> ["k_h&rl@s] seems mighty odd, THB. It sounds like an
> American saying 'careless'. I would say and expect
> your name to be said as the equivalent of [k_ha:lOs]
> (so in AmE I guess [k_hAr\lAs].
> --
> Tristan

Except that since the USA is a somewhat Spanish-speaking country*, we'd
probably interpret [k_hAr\lAs] as 'Carlas'.  The only way i've ever
heard Americans pronounce 'Carlos' is as [k_hAr\lows] (dialectal
variation in the exact vowels is fine), with a clear secondary stress
on the second syllable.


*
http://media.mitsubishi-motors.com/pressrelease/e/motorsports/
detail897.html
   (third paragraph from the bottom of the first article, and footnote
there)
   (although, to make things more complicated we pronounce 'Montero'
with a [a]~[A] vowel for the first |o|)



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