Re: USAGE: German VhC pronunciation

On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 11:47:20AM -0500, Mark P. Line wrote:
> The form is stressed on the first syllable. )
[...]
> 'Drahtseilakt' = tightrope act
Ah, the light goes on!  So |akt| is cognate with English |act|, and the
compound is rhythmically identical to its English gloss:
'Draht.seil,akt, 'tight.rope,act

I wonder why the author's rules translation gives it as just "Tightrope".

Thanks, other-Mark!  Or perhaps Mark'?  Hm.  Mark-Pline might be how
a person with a Japanese accent pronounced that, even . . . ;-)

-Marcos