Re: Harsh vs. Soft Sounds

En réponse à Isidora Zamora :


>Count me into the minority.  I don't mind uvular r's, though.  Danish has
>them, and I think they sound fine but can be monstrously difficult to
>pronounce when adjoining a front sound (either vowel or consonant).  (I was
>going to give an example, but realized that I can't even transcribe it due
>to the peculiar lenition of Danish coronal stops.)  The French r that I
>learned was a uvular trill, which can get harsh, but the Danish r is a
>voiced uvular approximate.
You were taught an uvular TRILL for the French r?!!!! Now for the last 
time, the French r is an uvular fricative in the North of France, in 
Belgium and in Switzerland, and an alveolar trill in the South of France 
(in some dialects only), but *never* an uvular trill! (there used to be a 
Parisian dialect using the uvular trill - the dialect Edith Piaf spoke - 
but it's now dead).

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang. 

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