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Re: CHAT: The [+foreign] attribute

From:Gustavo Eulalio <guga@...>
Date:Thursday, September 5, 2002, 16:28
Em Wed, 4 Sep 2002 10:45:20 -0400, John Cowan <jcowan@...> escreveu:

> There seems to be some evidence that for speakers of a language, there is > some other specific language that all foreign words are assumed to be in. > For English, it's French.
Hmmm. I don't think we have such a think here in Brazil. We always try to pronounce them in Portuguese. Depending on the person's education, s/he may try to pronounce it as English, French or German, or whatever if s/he knows something else. It depends also on what the person works with. Here in the Computer Science course at the university we tend to make things English. E.g., "façade" became /fasejd/ instead of /fasad/ (or whatever it is). Rule of thumb, we mix things. Ex.: "Michael Schumacher" (F1 racer) is pronounced /mikaEw S~umakeh/. The finals get portuguesized, and the "ch"s are rather try-to-be-German. -- Gustavo Eulalio <guga@...> Mestrado em Informática Universidade Federal de Campina Grande - UFCG Paraíba - Brasil "A preguiça é a mãe de todos os vícios, mas uma mãe é uma mãe e é preciso respeitá-la, pronto!", Quino