Re: THEORY: German final -g (was: THEORY: no more URs!)
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 27, 2002, 15:51 |
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On 26 May 02, at 12:53, Frank George Valoczy wrote:
> On Sun, 26 May 2002, Raymond Brown wrote:
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> > I hate having to disagree with John, but while we lived in South Wales we
> > had several German students stay with us; they all came from Swabia,
> > Bavaria or Austria (i.e. the south) and without exception pronounced final
> > -ig /Ik/. (They also pronounced initial {s} as [s] and not the [z] given
> > text books!).
>
> Maybe they were making an effort to speak TV-Deutsch...?
I don't know what "TV-Deutsch" is, but [s] for initial {s} is normal in
some southern regions of Germany (sorry for not being more precise).
I have a fried who comes from the Palatinate who consistently says
things such as [sEks] or [si:] for {sechs} and {Sie} (even though the
first then falls together with {Sex} = [sEks] even in standard German).
Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...>