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Re: USAGE: German VhC pronunciation

From:taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...>
Date:Monday, August 2, 2004, 13:41
* Mark J. Reed said on 2004-08-02 15:25:06 +0200
> For her birthday my wife received a German card game called > Drahtseilakt. (We are of the opinion that the best board and > card games come from Germany, and this one looks interesting > so far.) My question, however, is how to pronounce the name - > specifically, the |h|. Is it silent? Is it pronounced as [h], > which feels awkward, but not impossible, to my English-speaking tongue > in that position? Does it affect the preceding |a| somehow?
/x/ (because of the following t) or silent or lengthening the a are my guesses. t.