Re: RFC: Renaming 3B to Tezenki

On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 02:28:39AM +0100, Henrik Theiling wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Eric Christopherson writes:
> > ... If so, would people whose first language is not
> > English perceive /kant/ and /kVnt/ to sound the same?
>
> E.g. Germans, most definitely yes.  /V/ is a strange sound to us
> sounding very much like our /a/ so many of us pronounce those two
> words identically.
[...]

FWIW, when I first learned English, I conflated [V] with [a], and [I]
with [i] when speaking English. I found [I] too much like [e] when
listening to English. It was only until I came to North America that I
learned to tell them apart. But even now, I still have trouble
distinguishing between [V] and [6].


T

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