At 4:19 pm +0200 7/5/01, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
[snip]
>
>Well, I wanted to answer myself, but your reply is better than anything I
>could
>have written Ray!
Merci :)
>One footnote: Though I'm only 25, I still use quite often the phoneme
>/9~/, even
>though it often has the allophone /E~/ in very fast speech. In fact, I use
>/9~/
>in the extent that I use it even when saying "hein?" (French grunt-like
>phoneme
>meaning "what?" and usually pronounced /E~/). I don't think I will ever
>get rid
>of /9~/: I like that sound too much :) .
Glad to learn there's still at least one youngster using the sound :)
Ray.
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