Re: Nachtisch

On Sat, 6 Oct 2001 16:19:26 +0200 Stefan Koch <OneOfThree@...>
writes:
> "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...> writes:
> > German's orthography is fairly consistently phonemic, but there
> > are a few exceptions.  Because Standard German does not have
> > geminate consonants, a pair like "Nachttisch" (nightstand)
> > and "nachtisch" (nightly) are homophonous, the second <t> in
> > <Nachttisch> not being pronounced.
> Hmmmm. Another little mistake here: "Nach-tisch" is "dessert". ;)
> "nightly" would be "nächtlich". There are now adjectives with
> /-isch/
> although /-ig/ is often realized is as /-ich/ (like in "ich").
> OT: Are there no other Germans here?
> Stefan
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I know this isn't German, but Anglophone Yiddish instead, but i generally
find that i pronounce the adjective _fleishig_ "meat" (normally /flejSIk/
or /flejSIg/) as [flejSIx] instead.  That doesn't happen with its
opposite, _milkhig_ [mIlxIk], probably due to the previous existence of a
[x] sound in the word?


-Stephen (Steg)
 "cross the line and enter in oblivion"
     ~ lazy i

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