Re: OT: Intergermansk - Traveller's Phrasebook

On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 14:38:07 -0800, Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> wrote:

>--- "Pascal A. Kramm" <pkramm@...> wrote:
>
><snip>
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>> Thank You                           Tank Du
>>
><snop>
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>> Thanks, fine.                       Tank, gud.
>
>Just off the top of my head I feel like daily usage
>would tend to stick some vowel or another at the end
>of "tank" to make it flow off the tongue more
>smoothly.  It just seems to me that "tanka du" and
>"tanka, gud" are easier to say.
I don't think it would cause any problems without vowel... I've never heard
any English speaker complaining that they would need a vowel at the end of
"Thank" or "thanks" so that it flows better or something.
But if it makes you happy, feel free to say "tanka", it should not have any
problems in being understood.

--
Pascal A. Kramm, author of:
Intergermansk: http://www.choton.org/ig/
Chatiga: http://www.choton.org/chatiga/
Choton: http://www.choton.org
Ichwara Prana: http://www.choton.org/ichwara/
Skälansk: http://www.choton.org/sk/
Advanced English: http://www.choton.org/ae/

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