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

At 15:41 -0600 23.1.2000, Matt Pearson wrote:
>
>I am, of course, not a native speaker, but when I was learning
>Swedish I would generally hear people elide the "k" in "-skt", and
>imitated this in my own pronunciation - so that "fantastiskt",
>for example, came out [fan'tastIst].  Did I get it wrong?  Or is
>this /k/-deletion perhaps a dialect feature?  (I learned Swedish
>in Uppsala.)
That's normally the case.  Västkustskt is special also in that if it obeyed
all the normal fast-speech rules of cluster simplification it would end up
identical to västkust "west coast", so in the end only the rule deleting a
/t/ between two /s/s applies, the /k/ being anomalously preserved to
maintain the distinction to the basic noun.  Still a lot better than having
to use the citation form! :-)

In practice we natives of course avoid the adjective like the plague,
preferring genitival constructs and compounds, like the dish västkustsallad
["vEsk@s'sAl:Ad].


/BP

 B.Philip Jonsson  <mailto: bpj@...> <mailto: melroch@...>
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