Re: CHAT: An introduction

Quoting Jake X <starvingpoet@...>:

> [an'dr\e@s r\oUt]:
> > The, well, variable indication of vocalic length is probably part of
> the
> > explanation. Perhaps to the way how |s| indicates both /s/ and /z/,
> but I
> > really don't know.
> But the /s/ and /z/ thing is regular!
Regular has never equalled easy. Especially if your native language is
Swedish, which is not fond of voiced frics at all. I still have a strong
tendency to pronounce English /z/ as [s]. Weirdly enough, I'm better at German
in this regard - presumably because my German pronunciation was less
entrenched than my English when I finally learnt [z].

                                                  Andreas