Re: Language Difficulty

I wrote:
>Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>>En réponse à Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>:
>>
>> >
>> > Ah, but you see, the dialect I've been most exposed to says, [IS li:b
>> > dIS], and I think [S] is a nice sound. =)
>> >
>>
>>I agree. This way, it's sounds less aggressive. But still less nice than
>>[j@'tEm] or [Ik'hawvan'jaw] :) . Well, you can guess the nationality of
>>the
>>person I'm involved with :) (not Belgian :) ).
>
>I keep hearing accented French vowels as long (eg [j@tE:m]) - is there an
>actual tendency to prolong them, or is it just my brain being defect?
Meant [Z@"tE:m] - I was probably inluenced by Christophe's similar typo
above.

                                                   Andreas


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