Re: German favourite words (was Re: Language Difficulty)
| From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 29, 2001, 19:48 |
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Vassily Chernow wrote:
>On Fri, 28 Sep 2001 13:42:28 EDT, J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> wrote:
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> >In a message dated 27.09.2001 10:59:34 AM, and_yo@HOTMAIL.COM writes:
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> >>I've always liked "tschechisch" [tSECIS] ...
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>And the Russian letter 'shcha' is translitterated schtsch: Schtscherbakow.
>Schtschukin. Chruschtschew. Dunno how/if Germans manage to pronounce
>that...
Odd - I've seen _Chrutschew_ a few times (I don't claim to read German texts
at a reg'lar basis!), but never _Chruschtschew_. But let's just call him
_Kukuruznik_ and do away with that dread
shch/s^c^/szcz/schtsch/ssh/whatever!
Andreas
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