Re: Marked and Unmarked

On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:

>On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Henrik Theiling wrote:
>
>> Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> writes:
>> > On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, John Cowan wrote:
>> >
>> > > Yoon Ha Lee scripsit:
>> > >
>> > > > Er...BTW...what's a Sprachbund?  Sort of a linguistic isocline?
>>
>> Ah, BTW, how do you English speakers pronounce that?  In German it's
>> [SpRa:xbUnt], but I suspect it's shifted a bit in English?
>>
>> Maybe you say [spra:kband]? :-)
>
>I've had German so my responses are off, but I would probably once have
>said something like [sprakb@nd].  Painful to a German-speaker, I know.
/'spr&kbUnd/

Padraic.