Javier BF wrote:
>>Doesn't work, because I'm physically unable to carry out the tongue
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>movements
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>>involved in making a [d] with trill frequency. [r] may be acoustically
>>identical to a quick succesion of [d]'s, but not articulatorily.
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>There seems to be a certain amount of people with
>a natural inability or difficulty in pronouncing
>certain sounds (especially alveolar plosive trills)
>even though they may happen to be native speakers
>of languages where those occur. Maybe you are one
>of those, or else you simply find it too difficult
>because you aren't used to pronouncing it.
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You've misunderstood him. He means that he simply could not pronounce
a trill the same way he would a sequence of [d]s.