Re: OT: Intergermansk - Traveller's Phrasebook

--- Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:

> Quoting Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>:
>
> > --- "Pascal A. Kramm" <pkramm@...> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 14:38:07 -0800, Gary Shannon
> > > <fiziwig@...> wrote:
> > >
> > > >--- "Pascal A. Kramm" <pkramm@...> wrote:
> > > >
> > > ><snip>
> > > >
> > > >> Thank You                           Tank Du
> > > >>
> > > ><snop>
> > > >
> > > >> Thanks, fine.                       Tank,
> gud.
> > > >
> > > >Just off the top of my head I feel like daily
> usage
> > > >would tend to stick some vowel or another at
> the
> > > end
> > > >of "tank" to make it flow off the tongue more
> > > >smoothly.  It just seems to me that "tanka du"
> and
> > > >"tanka, gud" are easier to say.
> > >
> > > I don't think it would cause any problems
> without
> > > vowel... I've never heard
> > > any English speaker complaining that they would
> need
> > > a vowel at the end of
> > > "Thank" or "thanks" so that it flows better or
> > > something.
> >
> > The English phrase "thank you" already has a vowel
> > sound after the "k", namely the "you" sound.
>
> The "you" sound? Possibly, it's possible to analyze
> "you" as monophonemic in
> your English lect, but it's clearly not monophonic
> in any major variant of
> English, and asserting that the first bit thereof -
> [j] - is a "vowel sound" is
> a bit suspect. It's a glide, and rather straddles
> the vowel/consonant line. I
> think the rules for what you find easy to pronounce
> are a bit more complex than
> you think.
>
>
> Andreas
>
you = ee-oo. That's a vowel sound in my reality.

--gary

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