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Re: I believe the term here is "Pshaw".

Posted By: Eric Sleator, on host 68.7.40.26
Date: Saturday, November 30, 2002, at 11:41:23
In Reply To: Re: I believe the term here is "Pshaw". posted by Fuzzpilz on Saturday, November 30, 2002, at 04:58:00:

> Again, bad choice of words on my part. What I
> meant was the untrilled, sort of l-like r. I
> don't know what the formal name of the phoneme
> is, embarrassingly.

Ah, the British r. I was never able to pronounce that either.

I think my biggest beef with German pronunciation is that when you guys borrowed words from French you kept the nasal vowels nasal, thus making words like "Restaurant" sound like Louie the French Chef in The Little Mermaid rather than any normal human word.

-Eric Sleator
Sat 30 Nov A.D. 2002

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Re: I believe the term here is "Pshaw". - Fuzzpilz - Sat, 11/30/2002, 16:35:11

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Message:	> > Again, bad choice of words on my part. What I > > meant was the untrilled, sort of l-like r. I > > don't know what the formal name of the phoneme > > is, embarrassingly. > > Ah, the British r. I was never able to pronounce that either. > > I think my biggest beef with German pronunciation is that when you guys borrowed words from French you kept the nasal vowels nasal, thus making words like "Restaurant" sound like Louie the French Chef in The Little Mermaid rather than any normal human word. > > -Eric Sleator > Sat 30 Nov A.D. 2002
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