Re: Nasality på svensk

Douglas Koller wrote:
>Infödingar --
>
>Okay, so I'm thinking that, without the benefit of having met a
>native speaker since I decided to learn Swedish, I've managed to
>develop a reasonably unembarassing Swedish accent, grave and acute
>accents and all.
>
>Now a tape I picked up in Japan on learning Swedish has a guy and a
>woman on it. The guy speaks normally, but the chick has, how shall I
>put this, a definite twang in her voice. I chocked it up to her
>individual pronunciation and as something I did not wish to imitate,
>and left it at that. But I was watching OP:7 on TV the other night
>(is everyone in Sweden that cute? heck, even the shlubs on the show
>are good-looking), and a couple of the characters had the same kind
>of, for lack of a better term, tinny nasality.  I can't describe the
>phenomenon well, and I can't reproduce it, but natives, what is it
>that I'm noticing? A regionalism? Swedes with deviated septa or cleft
>palates? I mean "by" sounds like /by~~~~~/, fint like /fi~~~~nt/, etc.
>
>Strange.
I very much believe that Daniel gave you the correct answer, but I can't
resist a stupid question: What on earth is OP:7?

And yes, we're all cute here. In particular, all male foreign students at
Uni I've spoken with agree that Swedish women are much more beautiful than
those in their homecountries ... (home countries include the UK, Germany,
France, Ukraine, Moldavia(!) and a few more)

                                                    Andreas

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