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

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 19:03:00 +0100, Steven Williams <feurieaux@...> wrote:

> --- 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.
As I've said, I think the accent used in these ancient newsreels was just
the standard media accent of that time, for nazis as well as for communists
or democrats. We just happen to hear more nazi newsreels than other ones
(which is sad if you think about it).

gry@s:
j. 'mach' wust