Re: OT coins and currency
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 11, 2006, 22:13 |
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On 1/11/06, Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...> wrote:
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> Mark J. Reed jazdy:
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> > On 1/11/06, Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...> wrote:
> > > Yes, they are the same in spelling, and different in propnunciation.
> Ru.
> > > |Европа| [jiv"rop@]
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> > [jiv]? Really?
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> By Ghu! It is [jiv...]
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> > How did that happen? I would expect [jEv] or [jev]
> > from that spelling.
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> Ha ha ha. This is called vowel reduction!
Vowel re-what-ion? As a native English speaker, I've never encountered that
phenomenon before!! :)
I just hadn't heard of the /_je/ => /_ji/ reduction, which is sort of odd
since I took a year of Russian in college and we spent a lot of time
cultivating authentic accents. According to my teacher, I was one of the
best pronouncers (pronunciators? :)) in the class - even as I did among the
worst in remembering the vocabulary and grammar. Russian was the arrow
that burst my "I'm good at learning languages!" balloon. :)
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
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