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

>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! :-)
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.)

Matt.