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Re: Conlang baby-talk

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 28, 2003, 12:20
En réponse à Christian Thalmann <cinga@...>:

> > French *is* baby talk. =)))) >
Say that to Jean-Marie Lepen ;)))) .
> No, seriously: I think the fact that French is spoken so far to > the front of the mouth, with lots of pouty rounded vowels (even > the schwa is rounded!) and palatised* consonants, makes Francophones > (esp. women (esp. Laetitia Casta <G>)) sound cute.
Well, remember the term "gnangnan"? Laetitia Casta is probably the archetype of its definition ;)))) (now I don't dislike her, especially since she comes from the same neighbourhood as me ;)))) . But her "cutey-cutey" way of talking can be annoying...). I guess that's
> why the language is synonymous with romance in the US. ;-) > > *) Palatisation: I don't know how true that is, but I find > myself to sound much more authentic when pronouncing most > consonants with a touch of palatisation. My "gare" sounds more > like [g_ja:R] than just [ga:R]. This might be a regionalism. > Christophe? >
Well, my own consonants don't have the slightest touch of palatalisation, and I've never heard French consonants being pronounced even slightly palatalised... Maybe it's a way for you not to be tempted to aspirate them? Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.

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