Re: OT: Intergermansk - Traveller's Phrasebook

Quoting Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>:

> --- "Pascal A. Kramm" <pkramm@...> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 14:38:07 -0800, Gary Shannon
> > <fiziwig@...> wrote:
> >
> > >--- "Pascal A. Kramm" <pkramm@...> wrote:
> > >
> > ><snip>
> > >
> > >> Thank You                           Tank Du
> > >>
> > ><snop>
> > >
> > >> 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.
>
> 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

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