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@...>
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