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

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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