Re: List limits, and Passover/Easter

On Fri, 28 Apr 2000 11:13:45 +0200 BP Jonsson <bpj@...> writes:
> Especially as it is only in modern English one can get the notion
> that they
> are pronounced the same ['i:d@n]!  Hopefully even anglophones who
> have
> actually studied ON write _Iðunn_ and pronounce it ['IDUn].  BTW it
> should
> just as well be spelled _Ithunn_ in English to avoid this nonsense.
> I
> don't have the foggiest how _Eden_ should be pronounced or spelled,
> but I guess Steg has...
> /BP
>  B.Philip Jonsson
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"Eden" is _`eiden_...hypothetical "Classical Hebrew" pronounciation
[3eDEn], where /3/ = `ayin, voiced pharyngeal fricative.  Pronounce it
very overemphasized and no one will ever mix them up again :-)  !

[3:::::::]  now that's a phoneme that sounds like gargling.  Actually, in
the _Teach Yourself Arabic_ book i tried to use a few years ago it
described /3/ as being "made with the same muscles you use to
regurgitate".  At least now i've got it down well enough to not have any
problems when i eventually take a course in Arabic here in college.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "sleep, like a fog, blew over him."  ~  _gilgamesh_