Re: Ashamed of [T]? (fy: /T/ -> /t_d/?)

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Sally Caves <scaves@F...> wrote:

>Where were you trained?  I learned Spanish in Southern California.
>Much "eastern" Latin American Spanish drops final "s," I find.
>Among the Puerto Ricans, I think, and also the Argentinians.  (Am I
>correct?).  So that often I'll hear buena noche for buenas noches.
>Is it also a Cuban trait?  (it makes comprehension fiendish for me).
I, too, learned Spanish from Cubans and Puerto Ricans at SUNY
Brockport.  Then I spent time in Honduras in the Peace Corps.  That
rather solidified it for me.  They spoke about eating the s's.

Another dialectical variation I like & have picked up is the unvoiced
alveolar trill at the end of a word.  It's usually accompanied by a
hiss of air.

Charlie