Re: Ashamed of [T]? (fy: /T/ -> /t_d/?)
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, November 1, 2004, 14:09 |
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On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 03:45:28PM -0500, Pascal A. Kramm wrote:
> It's exactly the same in German - either th sound can only be heard from
> people having a speech defect. As such, the sound is very undesirable, and
> that's why I wrote a German would be rather *disgusted* by it (and certainly
> not *ashamed*).
The two are equally mind-boggling for me. I can understand thinking
that the sound is silly; I can understand maybe being a little
embarrassed to pronounce it; but disgusted by it? That's simply
ludicrous.
-Marcos