Re: French and German (jara: An introduction)

Henrik Theiling scripsit:

> ['OIRo:\] is the standard, but ['OYRo:\] may exists, too, I don't know.
Really?  I am no native speaker, but my mother was, and taught German to
boot, and my pronunciation is pretty sharp.  I definitely maintain rounding
throughout the pronunciation of "eu": only the tongue moves, not the lips.

> And English uses...
Depends on dialect, of course, since English has no standard spoken form.
For me, [j2r\ow], more or less.

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