Re: Rs

Some varieties of English do (West Country accents, American English...)
When learning a foreign language part of what it makes it sound foreign is
precisely such things like always sounding the postvocalic r. You just have
to practise I'm afraid!
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Bates" <christopher.bates@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 2:45 PM
Subject: Rs


> Why does english not use any r sound after a vowel? I mean, r can only
> occur if it is followed by another vowel, "or", "ar" "er" "ur" etc
> normally represent long vowel sounds, and "ir" represents two vowel
> sounds if i'm not confused. It just seems strange... and its slightly
> irritating since I'm trying to learn spanish and I find myself utterly
> incapable of pronouncing a spanish trilled r, or of using an english one
> to replace it all the time (since spanish has rs occuring at the end of
> words and when not followed by a vowel).