Re: USAGE: syllables

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From: "Costentin Cornomorus" <elemtilas@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: USAGE: Re: syllables


> --- michael poxon <m.poxon@...> wrote:
>
> > I think the thing about "Dvorak" is that
> > because dv- is not a permissible
> > initial CC in English, it is seen as foreign.
> > The difficulty isn't so much
> > in the pronunciation, but 'pronouncing it
> > right', i.e., /dv/ rather than
> > /d@v/ though I don't know of anyone, other than
> > possibly a Czech immigrant,
> > who would 'say it right' to the extent of
> > getting the r+hacek sound too!
>
> Sort of like "dvorzhack"? Add musicians and FM
> classical radio types to Czeck immigrants!!
>
> > I'm
> > sure this happens with lots of other languages
> > too - 'luau' is never
> > pronounced with its glottal stop by English
> > speakers, for instance.
>
> Nor "Hawai'i".
>
> > How far
> > this is 'posturing' (i.e., "look at me, I can
> > say the word right!") I don't know.
>
> Quite a lot, I suspect. It grates when a
> perfectly normal Bland English speaking news
> reader will break out all Hispanic when Julio
> César Gomez de Balboa appears on the news.
I don't know.  I'd like people to say my name right, even if they are bloody
forn'ers.;-)

I'd say names are an exception, though.

> Padraic.
>
>
> =====
> Et ters davigaint deck y yaithes 'n el drichlend le Roy Markon;
> y cestes d' ils yspoil morès y ddew chaumèz e-z-el tons l' organón.
>
>
>
>
> .
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