From: "Andreas Johansson" <and_yo@...>
> Tommie
> >I got mildly acquainted with a dialect of that language in
> >1962-64. All I still remember about it is that "danke sehr"
> >was [d'k Se] (like saying "duck shay" in English but swallowing
> >the "duck")
>
> Nice! Reminds me of my own rather odd use of [(N)ke] for "thanks". It's, of
> course, derived from German 'danke'.
I say ["t{ntS@`] or ["t{ntSj@`]. (a corruption of the English [T{Nkju] >
[T{Nkj@`] > [T{ntSj@`], with [T] > [t] for good measure...)
*Muke!