Re: YADPT (D=Dutch)

--- Tristan McLeay skrzypszy:

>Well, something's fishy, because it's _definitely_ [i:n] and [twi:] in
>Mum/Oma/Harrie/Mien's dialect. I've heard the words enough that they sound
>normal and [e:n] and [tve:] funny :) (I remember noting that twee sounded
>like three; it's unlikely I would've thought that if it'd been [tve:].)
Oh, but that could be. Dutch is a language particularly rich in dialects,
and as I said, I don't know much about other dialects than my own,
especially dialects so remote as Zeeuws. All I can say is that [i:] looks
credible to me, [w] in <twee> doesn't.

>I guess it's possible that the sound I hear as [w] or [v] is actually that
>sound Christophe says happens especially in the south. But it's certainly
>not [e:] in een and twee.
Could be.

>Hey, Christophe? :)
Christophe has got a new job, where he cannot spend time online during
worktime anymore. So there will be a little less Christophe here, I'm
afraid. :(

Jan

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