Re: German style orthography
| From: | J. 'Mach' Wust <j_mach_wust@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, December 11, 2004, 2:58 |
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On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 19:56:25 +0100, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
> |Self...| [sElf...]
>and |Soft...| [sOft...]
>and |surf...| [s96f...]
>and |Set| [sEt]
>and |Setting| ['sEtIN].
I'd pronounce all these with /z/, except for _self_ which I can't think of
but in the word _Selfmademan_, a loan I don't adapt to German pronunciation.
Maybe my vast use of /z/ is a Swiss peculiarity. There might be some
connection to the Swiss opposition of short and long consonants.
I'm not sure about the Swiss German pronunciation of _Cent_. We don't use
that money. The pronunciation /sEnt/ reminds me always of US-dollars, so I'd
rather prefer /tsEnt/. I could imagine that there are Swiss Germans who'd
intuitively use the French word _centime_ /'sa~tim/ (though in French, both
_cent_ /sa~/ and _centime_ seem to be used).
gry@s:
j. 'mach' wust
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