Re: Many consonants

Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
>
> > Date:         Wed, 7 Nov 2001 03:20:11 -0500
> > From: Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
> >
> > Swedish _Ernstskts_ [{n`s`t`s`kts] pretty good. It's the name _Ernst_,
>plus
> > adjectival -sk, t-gender -t and genitive -s, meaning something like "of
>an
> > Ernstian (thing)". Only  seven consonants, but final ...
>
>A Danish linguist (Helmslev, I think) came up with the following to
>illustrate how many final unvoiced consonants Danish can pile up:
>
>            Et holmbladsk lys' styrke er større end et aspsks.
>
>(The strength of a candle from Holmblad is stronger than that of one
>from Asp. (Holmblad and Asp, the two main candle producers in Denmark,
>have since merged)).
>
>Danish has long since dropped the gender mark -t after -sk, so even if
>Mr. Asp had been named Ernst, we'd only have six consonants to the
>seven of Swedish.
How'd you pronounce Ernst? Same as we ,[{n`s`t`]?

                                                       Andreas

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