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Re: USAGE : Yet another proof people are weird ...

From:Carlos Thompson <chlewey@...>
Date:Sunday, July 20, 2003, 16:56
Andreas Johansson wrote:


> Quoting Estel Telcontar <estel_telcontar@...>: > > > Perhaps it has to do with syllable boundaries? I'm guessing that in > > _ignorera_ there is a syllable break between the "g" ([g] or [N]) and > > the "n", while _ugn_ is all one syllable. > > Nice theory, which unfortunately founders on _ugnar_ ['8Nnar] "owens".
Well, not really as _ugnar_ is _ugn_ + _ar_ [8Nn]+[ar], while there is no natural way to make _ignorera_ as _ign_+_o..._ You may syllabize _ugnar_ as _ug-nar_ [8N.nar], but the [Nn] are still part of one morphem. OTOH, is there a propper way for Swedish writting to force a [g.n] pronunciation? We can well say that the correct pronunciation of _ignorera_ (_ig-no-re-ra_) is [Ig.nU.re:.ra] and that the [INnUre:ra] pronunciation is orthographical pronunciation. -- Carlos Th

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