| From: | Daniel Andreasson Vpc-Work <daniel.andreasson@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 24, 2003, 15:45 |
John Cowan wrote:> Linus being, of course, a Finland-Swede says ['lInUks]. Here he is > saying "Hello, this is Linux Torvalds and I pronounce Linux 'Linux'" > in English (http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/linus/swedish.au) and Swedish > (http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/linus/swedish.au). The second time he says > "Linux" in the Swedish version it sounds more like ['LInYks] to me.I can't listen to au-files here at work, but that last sound that sounds like [Y] to you might actually be the infamous Swedish |u| as spoken with the Finland-Swedish dialect. That would make it something like [}] or [U\] or [8]. I say "Linux" (with my Stockholm dialect) as ["li:n8ks]. I guess that would place me in the "OK, we won't kill you because of your pronunciation, but you'd better improve"-group... :) Daniel Andreasson -- http://www.conlanglinks.tk