Re: "Roumant", or whatever it may be called. Part V

En réponse à Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>:

>
> `Stachelrochen' ['Staxl=,ROxn=] isn't that nice?
>
> (How do you write syllabic consonants as ASCII?  I put a = behind.)
>
I think that's the common way to do it.

> But I like Dutch, too.  It is very funny when you are used to German.
> I don't think Dutch is softer: have you heard a Dutsch from the north
> (e.g. Groningen) say `Geef me en goede gids over gevels een grachten?'
> ['xe:f m@ @n 'xu:j@ 'xIts ov@x 'xe:vl=s En 'xRaxt@(n)]?
>
> [xR] is a *very* strange and nice initial. :-)
>
:) I should have been more explicit. Dutch is such a group of different-sounding
dialects... I was talking about the Southern Dutch (the one of my boyfriend)
which has [G] (voiced velar fricative) instead of [x], and [*] (voiced alveolar
flap) instead of [R]. Much softer isn't it? And then <gr> has become [G*], still
strange but much softer :) . For Southern Dutch ears, Northern Dutch sounds
extremely harsh, German-like (those are the words of my boyfriend, not mine).
Still, he claims to find German beatiful. I wonder where he finds it...

Christophe.