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

 --- "Nathaniel G. Lew" <natlew@...> wrote: >

>
> I have always been amused by the varying
> pronunciations of Debussy.  In the
> UK, he is pretty much /d@'bjusi/,
generational. the divide is around my parents' age i
think ( mid 50s at the moment ). younger people will
say /dI'bu:si/ ( /I/ i think is correct, altho it can
come out [@] in some accents ), just as they'll say
/su:t/ for /sju:t/ |suit|

in the US
> /'dEbj@si/ -- please insert
> your preferred diphthongs for u and i -- and of
> course in France, when
> pronounced alone he is /d@by'si/, so as he moves
> from country to country
> and continent to continent, he gets all three of his
> syllables accented.
> Lucky guy.
>
lucky indeed.

then again, in russia my name is |met'ju batt|
/'mEt_jju bAt/ and in france it's /mat'ju b9t/, but
not being a famous composer, i suppose my luck isn't
in the same league . . .

bn

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

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