Re: Tho (was: Blandness (was: Uusisuom's influences))

> This would probably annoy David Peterson no end, but in
> Swedish (my native lang), I've long since taken to pronounce
> certain such abbrevs more or less as written. Eg Swedish
> _till exampel_ "for instance, eg" is commonly abbreved {t ex},
> which I've taken to pronounce /teks/ in informal language.
> Really weird is /d@vs"/ (REALLY short schwa) for {dvs} _det
> vill säga_ "that is to say".
Heh. Perhaps I should start saying [tEks] instead of [tsEmp@l].
I've tried saying [@'fajk] and [i:rk] ("AFAIK" and "IIRC") to
friends, but it just passes by without anyone noticing. :(

Oh well. I suppose they don't read as many English e-mails as
I do...

||| daniel

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