Re: Chinese Dialect Question

Isidora Zamora scripsit:

> Which potato?  The one's that Danes invariably keep in their mouths when
> speaking :-)
That would be the one.  When I (mis)translated "Copenhagen" as
"Cheapinghaven", Lars Mathiesen corrected it to "Cheapmanhaven"; I
apologized that I hadn't been able to hear the "mann" morpheme through
the potato.

> Can you explain the "over-voiced" and "over-fortis" business to me?  I
> learned Danish before I was a lingust.
In other words, pronouncing [b_0] as [b] is more voicing than is wanted,
but doesn't collide with any other phoneme.  Similarly, pronouncing
[t_0_h] is more fortis than it should be.

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