Re: CHAT: barbarisms (was: CHAT: Being both theologically correct and
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 16, 2001, 10:13 |
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At 10:25 2001-05-15 -0700, Frank George Valoczy wrote:
>Hm. Anything I don't know how to say, I pronounce it as if it were
>Hungarian, that is with stress of the first syllable, [A] for /a/...thus
>this /automata/ I would say as ["Auto%mAtA].
>
>Tieing into that other thread...maybe that makes Hungarian my native
>language?
Not necessarily, I tend to pronounce anything I don't know how to say with
a final stress, in spite of not being fluent in any natlang with this
feature. Might be due to the fact that my father was a Francophile and had
the same tendency, though!
/BP 8^)>
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