Re: French and German (jara: An introduction)

Hi!

Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> writes:
> > Ouch!  The not-childish-or-last-century-sounding pronunciation would
> > be /"pEI.dZ@R/ -> ["pEIdZ6].  Some phonems are borrowed, too. :-)
>
> Hm, my German German teacher used it. Of course, he's lived in Sweden since
> last century ...
Haha! :-)  Yes, probably. :-)

No, really, I think the pronunciation you gave *is* used nowadays, but...

> Not that the adult-or-this-century pronunciation is any less funky! ['pa:g6],
> I tell you!
Hahaha!  My grandmother has 'Sideboard' = ["zi:d@%bO6t]. :-)))

(I'm never whether to switch to *proper* conlang's Sampa:
['zi:d@,bO6t] then.  The % is really weird.)

> > is no way to write initial /s/.
>
> Which should be all argument you need against borrowing phonemes ...
Yeah, I'm going to say ['tsIti:\] from now on. :-)

**Henrik