Re: Language Difficulty

On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:

> > Date:         Fri, 28 Sep 2001 12:03:56 -0700
> > From: Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>
>
> > On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>
> > > En réponse à Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>: 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 :) ).
>
> > Well, my favourite is still [jEG Elsk6 TIG] or however you
> > transcribe it ;)
>
> Hmm, that looks North Germanic, and with that initial dental fricative
> in the third word it should be either Icelandic or Faeroese. But they
> don't have voiced velar fricatives in <ek> and <þik>, I think...
Icelandic. AFAIK Faroese doesn't have [T]?

But I don't know how the "g" would actually be transcribed. I've heard
variety of things for the above sentence, like [j@wElsk6TIX], but again,
i don't know what is that last sound in /jEg/ and /TIg/...

>
> So, by similarity to spelling, is that supposed to be the Danish <jeg
> elsker dig>? Current pronunciation is something like [ja"?Elsk6%d_ta].
>
> Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)
>