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Re: Personal adjectives (was: Fruitful typos (was: Vulgar Latin))

From:BP Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Sunday, January 23, 2000, 17:04
At 01:38 +0100 23.1.2000, daniel andreasson wrote:
> >We have a real tongue twister in Swedish. >_vaestkustskt_ which is the adjective of 'west coast'. >All of '-stskt' at the end has to be pronounced. >Try to say that ten times in a row! :)
We who live on the said coast generally say ['vEsk%skt] in normal, unmonitored speech. What you say when you talk and what you say when pronouncing a word in isolation is often very different! :-) /BP B.Philip Jonsson <mailto: bpj@...> <mailto: melroch@...> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~__ Anant' avanaute quettalmar! \ \ __ ____ ____ _____________ ___ __ __ __ / / \ \/___ \\__ \ /___ _____/\ \\__ \\ \ \ \\ \ / / / / / / / \ / /Melroch\ \_/ // / / // / / / / /___/ /_ / /\ \ / /Melarocco\_ // /__/ // /__/ / /_________//_/ \_\/ /Eowine__ / / \___/\_\\___/\_\ I neer Pityancalimeo\ \_____/ /ar/ /_atar Mercasso naan ~~~~~~~~~Cuinondil~~~\_______/~~~\__/~~~Noolendur~~~~~~ || Lenda lenda pellalenda pellatellenda cuivie aiya! || "A coincidence, as we say in Middle-Earth" (JRR Tolkien)