--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Trebor Jung <treborjung@F...> wrote:
> Philippe wrote: "When I was learning German at school, we pronounced
"eu" in
> "Leute" like in French "oeil". Only later I discovered that many Germans
> seemed to pronounced it a slightly different way, something between
"oeil"
> and "oy". But that never caused me the slightest problem."
>
> ??? I do not understand this. I'm not sure how to pronounce French
<oei> -
> don't think I've seen a French word with that trigraph. Or maybeI
have? My
> mind is probably asleep - it's the summer holidays... ;)
"Oeil" is [9j]. I never quite noticed that French people
use that for German "eu", but it makes sense. That's going
to make my fake French accent more convincing now. =)
The High German realization of the diphthong seems more like
[OH] or [O9] to me.
-- Christian Thalmann