Re: Woody or tinny?
| From: | Oskar Gudlaugsson <hr_oskar@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, May 19, 2001, 18:21 |
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On Sat, 19 May 2001 15:38:39 +1000, Tristan Alexander McLeay
<zsau@...> wrote:
>And of course, some of us find our /w3:d O:d@/s much nicer than our
>/O:d@ rQv w3:dz/s. And I also find /r/-combs ugly. Aren't I glad I'm
>non-rhotic?
>I have nothing against /ZQnr@/, but before vowels, when it comes out as
>/ZQnr@r/... {shudders}
:) Yes, the words I mention are mostly just bad in rhotic dialects. I'd say
us Icelanders are more used to the American rhotic dialect (via Hollywood
and rap-music, etc). I generally speak rhotic, which is why "word order"
causes me problems - how do other rhotic speakers feel about that one? It's
especially bad in American because of the flap articulation of the d's,
which adds to the rhotic-overflow.
As for "genre", I hate it because a) it's one of the few, if not the only,
word with an initial /Z/, and b) because it has an /nr/ combination, which
I find most unpreferable (no, none of my sons will be named "Henry", or the
Icelandic equivalent thereof :p).
Regards,
Óskar
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