Re: cyrillic?

Pavel Iosad wrote:
>>"The Golden Calf"
>> Caucasian accent
> Only it weas Turkish, not Caucasian ;-)
But of course, Turkish. My bad, haven't reread the book in quite a
while.

> Anyway, the Caucasian accents
> tend to have less velarized [Z]'s than standard Russian, not more
> velarized as the жэ-spelling might suggest.
And Bender, the son of a Turkish subject, couldn't have characterized
the accent as anything but Turkish. (Please excuse me those of you
who have no idea what the book is about.)

Re extra velarization: doesn't the usual representation of a Georgian
Russian accent have all soft consonants pronounced as hard before "е"?
(While, indeed, doing the reverse before "и" for "ж, ш, ц" and before
"ы" for everything else.)

In this particular case, "ж" indeed becomes "harder" when I try to say
"дажэ with an э", but I think it's a side-effect (in this particular
word); the increase of unstressed vowel tenseness and loudness, to the
point of shifting the stress to the second syllable, is the main
difference from the regular pronunciation that I'm trying to make.

Vladimir