Re: qriousity
| From: | Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 7, 2001, 22:23 |
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> I got mildly acquainted with a dialect of that language in
> 1962-64. All I still remember about it is that "danke sehr"
> was [d'k Se] (like saying "duck shay" in English but swallowing
> the "duck"), and that the singular articles "das, die, der" were
> all just [d'], and that, though many common nouns were from
> Czech, all non-nouns seemed to come from German.
Are you sure they were saying "danke sehr" and not "danke schoen"? In
Austrian "danke schoen" is generally pronounced [dankSen]...
-------ferko
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