Re: USAGE: syllables
| From: | michael poxon <m.poxon@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 14, 2003, 16:26 |
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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!
Mike
> Sort of like "dvorzhack"? Add musicians and FM
> classical radio types to Czeck immigrants!!
>
> 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.
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