Re: OT: Intergermansk - Traveller's Phrasebook

Gary Shannon wrote at 2005-02-04 18:45:45 (-0800)
 > --- Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
 >
 > > Quoting Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>:
 > >
 > > >
 > > > The English phrase "thank you" already has a vowel
 > > > sound after the "k", namely the "you" sound.
 > >
 > > The "you" sound? Possibly, it's possible to analyze
 > > "you" as monophonemic in
 > > your English lect, but it's clearly not monophonic
 > > in any major variant of
 > > English, and asserting that the first bit thereof -
 > > [j] - is a "vowel sound" is
 > > a bit suspect. It's a glide, and rather straddles
 > > the vowel/consonant line. I
 > > think the rules for what you find easy to pronounce
 > > are a bit more complex than
 > > you think.
 > >
 > >
 > > Andreas
 > >
 >
 > you = ee-oo. That's a vowel sound in my reality.
 >

But really Gary, this is most strange.  Do you pronounce "you" as one
syllable or two?  And how do you pronounce "year"?