Re: USAGE: syllables
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, June 15, 2003, 9:43 |
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At 17:20 14.6.2003 +0100, michael poxon wrote:
>I have to say, something that really grates with me is when English
>newsreaders are asked to say anything in Welsh. It's as though somebody has
>said to them "Right, now this is how you're supposed to say it - but you
>won't be able to manage that, will you, so this'll do..." I can understand
>them looking twice at something like Rhosllanerchrugog or Machynlleth (I had
>a friend once who wanted desperately to be able to say the last of these
>properly, but it always came out as /mahiNkl@T/ ) - but Llandudno?
>Trawsfynydd? Come on guys!
One would think that the nearest English approximation
to [K] would be [Sl] and not [kl] or [fl] or [Tl],
but then IME Norwegian speakers made Icelandic [K]
into [Cl], while Swedes made it a mere [l] (and here
one would think that the Icelandic spelling _hl_
would help.
Then there is of course the age-old ["p_hunjab] for
[p@n"dZA:b] which grates me no end!
/BP 8^)
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B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melrochX@melroch.se (delete X)
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