Re: CHAT: silly names
| From: | Robert Hailman <robert@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, March 18, 2001, 3:12 |
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Frank George Valoczy wrote:
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> > > "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.
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> 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.
--
Robert
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