Re: Personal Conjugation based on Closeness

Quoting Tristan McLeay <zsau@...>:

> > And BTW, you pronounce "Christian" (the adjective) with initial
> [tS]?
>
> No, I pronounce it with /k/. But people sitll want to to spell (and
> hear)
> /tSr/ as the first part of Christian. We've had this discussion
> before;
> Shreyas complained that people heard his name as Treyas; I mentioned
> my
> problem, then Christophe piped in with the fact that his family
> sometimes
> (jokingly) pronounced his name with a /S/.
Must've missed that.

The only thing in my L2 version of English that sounds to my ears much like
[tSr\] is /Sr/, as in "shrill". I guess it's yet again time to be amazed at how
differently the phonology-handling bits of different people's brains are wired.

                                                       Andreas