Theiling Online    Sitemap    Conlang Mailing List HQ   

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

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Saturday, July 17, 2004, 11:43
Quoting Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>:

> Quoting Christian Thalmann <cinga@...>: > > > --- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Tristan Mc Leay <kesuari@Y...> wrote: > > > Philippe Caquant wrote: > > > > > Perhaps they do it because /lydwigSa'fEn/ (IIRC) is the correct > > > pronunciation of 'Ludwigshafen' in French. If someone went off and > > > started saying /ludviksha:f@n/ (I assume) they would seem 'utterly > > > ridiculous' and 'will almost surely raise laughter and sarcasm > > > around'---your words, not mine! > > > > [lUdvIksha:fn=] would have been my first intuitive > > pronunciation too, but then, I'm Swiss, and what do we > > know about correct German pronunciation? ;-) It should > > probably be [lUdvICsha:fn=], since the -ig is final in > > the component word "Ludwig". > > If my encyclopedia is to be trusted, it's ['lu:tviCsha:f@].
Should be [-ha:f@n], of course. Andreas
> > I'd spontaneously have said ['lu:tvIksha:fn=], but then I've been infected by > the icky dialect herearounds (icky dialect; one that renders final -ig as > [Ik]). > > Andreas >