Re: How to Make Chicken Cacciatore (was: phonetics by guesswork)

I may be wrong, but it seems to me that in Alsace
(Elsass), "Leute" is pronounced more or less like
"Litt" ? Could you confirm ?

--- "J. 'Mach' Wust" <j_mach_wust@...> wrote:
> Andreas Johansson wrote:
> >Most of my books write [O2] - I've also seen [OY]
> and [Oy] (the last not
> > being meaningfully different from [OH], I guess).
>
> To my ears, [Oy] isn't accurate. I think that [OY]
> and [O2] are just the
> same, since German [2] merges with [Y], being rather
> [2_r] than plain [2].
>
> >There might be some sense to the "oeil"
> pronunciation, tho'
>
> Sure, this is the Alemannic pronunciation, and it's
> not only found in the
> dialects but even in some very rustic varieties of
> Swiss standard German
> (though these highly rustic varieties aren't used
> often nowadays but among
> old people or populistic politicians; schools have
> adopted a more moderate
> Swiss standard German).
>
> g_0ry@_^s:
> j. 'mach' wust
>

=====
Philippe Caquant

"High thoughts must have high language." (Aristophanes, Frogs)


	
		
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