Re: CHAT: silly names
| From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, March 21, 2001, 20:08 |
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Daniel Andreasson wrote:
> > My granddad is fond of the example "I å ä e ö" [i: o: E: e: 9:]
> > Standard Swedish would keep alot of consonants that're dropped
> > in granddad's dialect: "I ån är (det) en ö".
>
>Well, standard Swedish have the pronunciation [e:] of the
>copula _är_, although always spelled latterwise, never {e}
>(except of course in casual e-mails and such).
>
>I like the example. Isn't there a longer version of it?
Not that I now of. BTW, in my variant the copula is [E(:)] when unstressed,
stressed [E:r].
Andreas
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