Re: The letter j\

Steg Belsky wrote:


>On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 01:14:46 -0400 Roger Mills <romilly@...> writes:
>> In most of Argentina (I should say, in Buenos Aires) both <ll> and
>> <y> are
>> [Z]; interestingly, Pablo Flores always used [S] instead......a
>> regional -
>> personal - generational difference?  Or a change since 30 years
>> ago?
>-
>
>I always thought that [S] was one of the major distinguishing factors of
>the Rioplatense accent - as in [So me Samo] "yo me llamo".  Somewhere on
>Pablo's website he has a page all about Argentinian (or "Argentine" as my
>highschool Spanish teacher from Argentina perferred) Spanish.
>
I know, I know. But that's not what I heard (or have ever heard from an
Argentine).  I always meant to question Pablo about it, but never got around
to it-- never argue with a native speaker and all that....Then too, he's
from Rosario, not B.A.  (The consensus of writers on Ideolengua seems to
favor [Z] too, but many of them don't seem as linguistically knowledgeable
as Pablo.)