Quoting Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>:
> En réponse à Andreas Johansson :
>
>
> >I comforted to hear that there's apparently at least some Dutch with a
> sense
> >of phonetic propriety.
>
> As I recall, vaksje is not Dutch, and thus doesn't count here (just as I
> don't count either. If I used my own pronunciations to comment on how Dutch
> is pronounced, my comments would sure be very different ;))) ).
He isn't? That -je surely looks Dutch, at any rate!
> Also, I fail to see why [tv_0e:] would be more appropriate than [tv\e:]. I
> find actually the first one quite hurting to my ears! ;)))
Never go to Sweden then - [tv_0] is a fairly common initial cluster. But
there's no reason a labiodental ever need to be voiced, and next to a [t] it
most definitely shouldn't!
> Long live actually voiced consonants!!!
[evil] I rather wish them a long death ... [/evil] :)
Andreas