Re: The beautifulest phonology

En réponse à Danny Wier <dawier@...>:

>
> Didn't Hitler have a damaged larynx (probably from all that screaming)
> that made
> his voice so unbearably raspy?
>
Or maybe he smoked too much?

> In my senior year in high school, one of my best friends was an exchange
> student
> from (then West) Berlin. He was conversing with another exchange student
> in
> German (or a local dialect like Saxon) -- and it sounded NOTHING like
> the
> stereotypical "Nazi" language. In fact, I heard a woman reporting on
> Deutsche
> Welle and she sounded pretty dang sexy.
>
Standard German is definitely rougher than all its dialects. Though with me
it's not the [x] sound that annoys me (I find it a nice sound, just like I
think paprika in a salad enhances taste :)) ), but the [C] sound. Though a
fricative, its voicelessness (thus hardness, at least in my ears) and snaky
feel doesn't please me at all.

Still, I'm sure one day I'll create a conlang containing it :)) .

>
> I'm still wondering how you can say _groot God_ without sounding too
> "aggressively guttural"....
>
It's "Grote God" and I know a perfect way to make it sound better: pronounce it
in a Southern way, with [G] and [4] (alveolar flap). So you get [,G4ot@'GOt].
Still better than (ab)using [x] :)) .

Christophe.

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