Re: German style orthography

I've just discovered a post of mine that was rejected two days ago. Sorry
for the delay (and for the off-topicity).

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 17:50:28 -0500, Pascal A. Kramm <pkramm@...> wrote:

>That's not correct. There is *no* distinction made for being word-initial.
>The distinctions made are "s before vowel" (which is always /z/), "s before
>consonant except p, t" (which is always /s/) and "s before p, t" (which is
>always /S/). All of this regardless of position in the word.
Funny, I've always thought that the Alemannic were the only who pronounce
the words _Ast_ "bough" and _Espe_ "aspen tree" with /St/ and /Sp/! Are you
sure that you don't have some kind of Alemannic accent? This would also make
your distinction of short and long consonants much more plausible to me.

gry@s:
j. 'mach' wust