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

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@].

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

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