Re: Dutch R
From: | Boudewijn Rempt <boud@...> |
Date: | Friday, April 5, 2002, 9:25 |
On Friday 05 April 2002 08:14, you wrote:
> No offense meant, but I think that the [R] is in many
> cases the result of a certain lazy carelessness,
> characteristic for the pronunciation among mostly
> younger Dutch people of their language.
Well, to atttribute language change to laziness and
carelessness is a bit silly. Anyone's language is
the product of that 'carelessness' and 'laziness' --
even your own pronounciation of 'ekwos' as 'paard' :-).
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Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.valdyas.org
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