Re: CHAT: Tacos et al.

On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 11:42:51 -0600 "Thomas R. Wier"
<trwier@...> writes:
> > Could you provide an example? At the moment, I can think of
> `moebius' and 'Schroedinger'(sp), both of which have /8u/ (~=/ou/)
>
> In nativized speech I've always heard [moubi@s] for <möbius>, while
> I have heard both [SreidiNgr=] and [SroudiNgr=] for <Schrödinger>.
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> Thomas Wier <trwier@...> <http://home.uchicago.edu/~trwier>
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After having taken Yiddish for a year (which also derounds German's
front-rounded vowels), i've begun to pronounce {ü} as /i/ and {ö} as
/ej/, but generally only for *new* words and names that i come across.
So "möbius" is still [mowbi@s], but "hügel" in that Schiller poem i would
pronounce like Schiller, with an /i/ sound.  And i also pronounce "über"
as /ibr=/ or /ibEr/, because it's "iber" in Yiddish.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "ale next mit dreidl špiln mir..."

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