Re: CHAT: silly names

Frank George Valoczy wrote:
>
> On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Robert Hailman wrote:
>
> > Frank George Valoczy wrote:
> > >
> > > > > "Krk"? How'd that be pronounced? I'm thinkin' syllablic r, but I can't
> > > > > remember how to represent that in ASCII-IPA.
> > > >
> > > > AFAIK, it is /krik/, or similar. But I could be wrong.
> > >
> > > it is pronounced /k@rk/, almost.
> >
> > /k@rk/ would've been my second guess.
> >
> > > Another fun one is S'trbske Pleso in Slovakia /St@rbske: ple:so/
> >
> > Yeah, that's a good one. I do find, though, that the presence of even
> > one vowel makes a word much more pronouncible.
> >
> > Szczecin has always been difficult for me, but my Polish friend says
> > it's very easy. From what I can tell, he says something like /StSEtsIn/,
> > but it's been a while since I've heard him say it.
> >
>
> Alost exactly like that, only the c is palatalised.
So *that's* why he says I'm always pronouncing it wrong. I'd like to
learn Polish some day, I can kind of pronounce written Polish somewhat
correctly, but I've still got a long way to do even with that. I just
don't know where I can find a Polish teacher n Toronto.

--
Robert