Re: OT: Intergermansk - Traveller's Phrasebook

--- Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:

> Quoting Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>:
>
> >
> > you = ee-oo. That's a vowel sound in my reality.
>
> You spell it with a hyphen and still insists it's
> *one* sound? That's fairly
> original.
>
> I don't doubt you if you say you perceive "you" as
> consisting of a unitary
> sound. But saying that "thank" is followed by a
> vowel in "thank you" is
> confusing for us who perceive it as a CV syllable.
>
>
> Andreas
>
I did not mean to imply that the entire word was ONE
vowel, only that it BEGAN with a vowel sound, and that
"tank du", lacking either an ending vowel on "tank" or
a beginning vowel on "du" would be mangled by American
speakers and pronounced "tang du", "tanka du", "tank
yu", or "tank u".

--gary

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