Re: Number

Hi!

Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> writes:
> On Monday, August 6, 2001, at 05:16 AM, Henrik Theiling wrote:
...
> Thank you.  :-)  That makes more sense to me now.  And [IS] for "ich" *is*
>   acceptable in some dialects?  I had begun to wonder since I've heard both
> [IC] and [IS] from my fiance.
Well, many people seem to have it.  Some dialects even *swap* [C] and
[S].  Anyway, this kind of things are not assumed to by Standard High
German.  But who speaks the standard, you know?  Where's he from?

The dialects over here (two very similar ones: Western Palatinian and
Saarlandian) have two ways of pronouncing it, I think.  One group of
dialects only has [S] (for both /S/ and /C/).  The other has a very
fronted [C], which I mixed up with [S] when I first came here.  For
me, because it's in between my sounds, it sounds a bit like [s], [S]
and [C] at the same time.  It is distinguishable from [S] though, but
not at all easily for me.

> There's something about being around native speakers...<G>
Yeah, I know that from Mandarin.  I'm very bad when natives are
around, but very good when I'm completely alone. :-))))))

> >       der Dachs   [daks]
...
> <profoundly relieved look>  You mean all that time I was sitting there
> strangling on -chs- in those one-syllable words it was unnecessary?  <G>
Hehe.  Maybe for most of them. :-)  It applies to more-syllable words,
too: `wachsen' [vaksn=], as the morpheme boundary is after -chs-.

Any try `F

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