Re: OT: German reputation
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 14, 2004, 15:14 |
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On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 08:32:43AM -0500, J. 'Mach' Wust wrote:
> /'di.os/ is not a Spanish word.
Huh? Yes it is. That is how you pronounce the Spanish word
for God: |díos| = /'di.os/.
> In very slow speech, you can of course seperate the word into two syllable,
> just as you could do with English words like /mjuz/: [mi.'(j)u:z].
No, it's not the same. Pronouncing "muse" as you indicate is very odd
and marked; whereas I regularly hear native Spanish speakers say /a.di'os/ as
3 syllables, even though the rules for Spanish diphthongs we were
taught in school would make it /a'djos/ (or maybe /ad'jos/).
On the other hand, I suppose it could just be my ear inserting a
syllable because [Dj] is an odd cluster for me - even when I say
/a'djos/ it sounds trisyllabic to me.
-Marcos
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