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Re: YAEPT: OMFG I'm a mutant!!! (was Re: Advanced English to become official!)

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Monday, April 4, 2005, 12:24
Hi!

Joe <joe@...> writes:
> Paul Bennett wrote: > > > > > On this subject (honestly, there's a connection if you dig for it), what > > is the Hebrew pronunciation of the word anglicised |schwa|, or for that > > matter the approved pronunciation in English speaking linguistics > > circles? > > I flit between /Sv@/ and /SwA/, and several others. > > > I go for [SvA:], because it looks German.
However, many modern dialects of German don't distinguish [a] and [A] (anymore?) -- the two collapse in the middle. I regularly write that vowel as simply [a], but I suppose it should be [a_"] to be very precise. And for some strange reason, I have a short vowel there, I don't know why. So I have [Sva_"] in German. This is close to modern Hebrew. :-) I think I keep the vowel when speaking English, but say [Swa_"]. **Henrik

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