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Re: Conlang baby-talk

From:Christian Thalmann <cinga@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 28, 2003, 15:00
--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@F...> wrote:

> 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...).
Probably cause she's a babe. I find it quite endearing. =D Surely you wouldn't find it that annoying if a cute *guy* talked that way? Or are you into machos? ;-)
> Well, my own consonants don't have the slightest touch of palatalisation,
and
> I've never heard French consonants being pronounced even slightly > palatalised...
Then you haven't seen "Le fabuleux destin d'Amelie" (sorry, no accents on this freaking Unix keyboard...). They pronounce "Lady Di" as [led_ji'd_ji], bordering on [ledz_ji'dz_ji]. Also, I remember the cutie-cute Aurelie from my language studies in California, who spoke le plus gnangnamment possible, and used to add a voiceless palatal fricative release after stressed final i's. For instance, her name would be something like [ore'liC]. ;-)
> Maybe it's a way for you not to be tempted to aspirate them?
Swiss German has unaspired voiceless stops, so they're not a problem to me. Voiced ones like [g] are unaspired by default. I'll try to record some samples of my "gare" when I get home. -- Christian Thalmann -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen!

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