Re: CHAT: silly names, prepositions

On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Andreas Johansson wrote:

>Ferenc Valoczy wrote:
>>Also: a curiosity thing, anyone want to type an approximation of the way
>>they would articulate a little text? Just to see how we all pronounce...
>>what would be a good little text? /a:j @m rE:D@ kj.oe.rj@s/ (ug... .oe. is
>>oe ligature like eu in French eux)
>
>Hm, I won't be using exactly the same anotation as you did, since I'm not
>entirely sure how your version works, but after eight years of Swedish
>school plus rather more English-langauge TV, movies and lyrics than is good
>for you have I'd pronounce the sentence "I am rather curious" as [a_i {m
>rA:D@ kju(@)ri@s], or more likely with contraction [a_im ...].
[?ajm r&Dr kjuri@s]

Padraic.

> Andreas