Re: Vertical script
| From: | Carsten Becker <carbeck@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 15, 2006, 9:45 |
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On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 13:53:43 +0200, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
wrote:
>Hi!
>
>Philip Newton writes:
>> On 9/5/06, Remi Villatel <maxilys@...> wrote:
>> > (I estimated your pronunciation of "Carsten" not too far from
[kax.St@n]
>> > since you used to have a german email.)
>>
>> I'd pronounce it roughly [ka:.stn=]; German /ar/ for me is [a:],
>
>Exactly the same here (an aspirated [k_h] that is, I assume).
See below.
>Many dialects have a much broader usage of [St] and [Sp], sometimes
>even universal, and it often spreads to the variety of High German in
>such areas.
Besonderscht de süüddeutsche Dialekte ham des. (Especially the Southern
German dialects have this)
>Since I have a very hard time knowing what quantity vowels have in
>Standard High German in front of /r/, I don't know whether |Carsten|
>has a long or short vowel, but my wife says it's short. :-)
It's /"ka6st@n/, which is rendered as something like [k_ha:stn=] IMD, maybe
even [k_hA:stn=], I don't know the exact quality of the /a/. But Remi and I
already talked about that two weeks ago in fact, offlist.
Yours,
["k_ha_-:s.tn= "bEk6]
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