Re: OFF-TOPIC: Pocinators & [lE"pri:S@nz] [was: Non linguistics books by Chomsky]
| From: | Danny Wier <dawiertx@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 25, 2004, 0:00 |
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From: "Benct Philip Jonsson" <bpj@...>
> At 15:19 5/24/2004, John Cowan wrote:
> >Never. Americans realize /x/ as [k], of course,
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> Wouldn't some make it /h/ to signal the foreignness of the word?
Oh we're never consistent on that. The infamous theocrat Khomeini is called
[komEini] and [homEini], and occasionally [XomEini] by people who've studied
Farsi or maybe speak German or even Spanish. But Spanish words like _junta_
and _jalapeño_ are always pronounced with an [h] (even by a lot of
Mexican-Americans!) Obviously word-final [h] just doesn't happen, so one
won't hear Bach pronounced as [bAh].