Re: OT: German reputation
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 16, 2004, 6:33 |
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On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 15:03:47 -0500, Pascal A. Kramm <pkramm@...> wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 01:02:27 +0100, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
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> >Hi!
> >
> >"J. 'Mach' Wust" <j_mach_wust@...> writes:
> >>...
> >> It's one of the cases that clearly show the advantage of the new ß-rules: In
> >> the old spelling, the pronunciation could be either /tSYs/ or /tSy:s/, in
> >> the new spelling |tschüss| the only pronunciation unambiguously is /tSYs/.
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> It clearly is NO advantage, also before the only possible pronunciation was
> /tSYs/.
If I understand you correctly, you are saying that "a word spelled
|tschüß| can only be pronounced /tSYs/ since |üß| word-finally always
encodes /Ys/ and never /y:s/"... which doesn't work in my accent since
|süß|, for example, is /zy:s/ and never /zYs/.
Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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