Re: rhotic miscellany (was: Advanced English + Babel text)

 --- Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> skrev:
> That was the /r/ used by Hitler, as you hear on
> ancient newsreels. It may be - I don't know - that
> this accounts for its  demise in the last half
> century.
The band Rammstein also does this a lot, which doesn't
help to dissuade the rumors that they're a bunch of
neo-Nazis (which they're not, but most people don't
know that or even care). The pronunciation of their
/r/ drove me up the wall, because it was so
_irritating_ after a while. I kept being reminded of
those very same ancient newsreels, with all the
stomping jackboots and 'Deutschland Erwache' banners.