Re: Fruitcakes was Re: Kentum/satem

En réponse à Maarten van Beek <dungeonmaster@...>:

>
> Brr.... those voicing southeners with their [G]'s and [z]'s where
> every
> normal Hollander would pronounce [x] and [s].
Well, even Northerners tend to have [z] between vowels. Or so I hear it. And
[G] is a hundred times softer than [x] for my throat :)) .

 And you pronounce /eu/ as
> a
> [2y] diphtong?
Maybe more [2H] (with the rounded version of [j]), but the whole diphtongue is
definitely rounded.

 My relatives from Belgium pronounce it something like
> ['G2jz@,nam], but then again, we can hardly call them still Geuzen.
>
I think it's probably the same pronunciation. Is the off-glide really
unrounded? If it's rounded, then it's [2H], which is basically what I meant (in
fast speech, the difference between [2H] and [2y] is too small to be heard by
me anyway, so it could be any of the two without me knowing which one :)) ).

I admit I don't understand the last remark. Please explain!

Christophe.

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