Re: German style orthography
| From: | Pascal A. Kramm <pkramm@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 10, 2004, 19:15 |
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On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:45:39 +0100, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
>Don't blame me, blame my German teacher (a native of East Berlin), who pointed
>it out to me! :)
>
>I know it's a bit "bad", since the [sEks] pronunciation is far from universal -
>indeed, if ordering in the Duden is of significance, [zEks] would appear to be
>the commoner pronuncation - but I couldn't think of any actual minimal pair
>involving a better example like _City_.
As I said, (written) s before vowel is always voiced. Only in imported
loanwords where it's written, it can be pronounced voiceless, however...
>I notice that Duden gives [sEnt] as the only pronuncation of _Cent_. I've
always
>been saying [tsEnt], and unless my memory and/or perception is playing
tricks on
>me - which is certainly possible - so have the Germans I've known. What
does the
>list's germanophones say?
Pronouncing "c" as /ts/ rather than /s/ is very common indeed. Come to think
of it, I can't remember a single instance where someone actually pronounced
it /s/ and not /ts/...
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Pascal A. Kramm, author of:
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