Re: CHAT: A flat minor (was: ATTN: Pablo Flores (VIRUS WARNING))

 --- Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>
wrote: >  --- bnathyuw wrote:
>
> > > The best pronunciation would thus be a
> compromise.
> > > Real mistakes, like the accent on the wrong
> syllable, are evidently not
> > > allowed.
> >
> > errm, /,li@U 'tQlstOI/ for ( iirc ) /l_jef
> > tVl_j'stOI/. /k&tS@tSUri@n/ for /x@tS@tu'r_jan/ ?
>
> More or less. In Dutch I would say [lEf tOl'stOj].
> I'm have my doubts about the "l_j" in your
> transcription; it implies a soft
> sign, and I don't think it's there in Russian.
i could be confusing it with /bVl_j'SOI/, which does
have a soft sign

But I
> could be wrong, since
> Russian is - at best - my L6.
> About Khachaturian I'm even less sure; it's an
> Armenian name and thus bound to
> different rules. All I know is that the accent is
> one the last syllable,
> indeed.
i may be very wrong, but 'catch-a-choorian' is
definitely incorrect !

bn

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bnathyuw | landan | arR
stamp the sunshine out | angelfish
your tears came like anaesthesia | phèdre

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