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Re: OT: German reputation

From:Muke Tever <hotblack@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 14, 2004, 13:52
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 00:15:27 -0500, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
> The accent is indeed on the last syllable, hence the graphical accent. The > question is whether there is one or two syllables before that. J. Mach > interprets it as two, and it may sound that way in rapid speech, but my > Spanish-speaking friends seem to consistently pronounce it with three. > [a.Di'os], not [a'Djos]. I suppose that makes sense, since it derives from > the phrase [a'Di.os], but that begs the question - why did the emphasis > shift to the final syllable in the combined form?
Odd, I have it from the phrase [a "djos]. I don't think I've ever heard "Dios" as a disyllable--and I went to the Spanish church a lot when I was younger. And actually, before yesterday I never heard [%adi"os] trisyll. except in Japanese anime. (Nevertheless, I did hear it yesterday, and from a native speaker.) *Muke! -- website: http://frath.net/ LiveJournal: http://kohath.livejournal.com/ deviantArt: http://kohath.deviantart.com/ FrathWiki, a conlang and conculture wiki: http://wiki.frath.net/

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