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Re: Describing the Welsh LL to non-linguists

From:Veoler <veoler@...>
Date:Friday, November 14, 2008, 14:40
Lars Finsen wrote:
>> With the >> synaesthesia turned on I would say that it taste as gooseberry and >> feels like a refreshing breeze. > > It feels more like a gale the way Ms. Gibbard pronounces it.
Perhaps. I just began building my English wind vocabulary today, and if "breeze" corresponds to Swedish "bris", then maybe I should have said "strong breeze". Now I found about the Beaufort scale on Wikipedia. Yes, maybe it is a weak gale. -- Veoler