Le 13 juin 13 à 22:55, Andrew Fildes a écrit :
> How do they pronounce Nykon...er, Kneekon...er, ummmm.
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Closer to the Japanese form?
Curious minds want to know
Ph
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> short and long baaaaths are for effete southerners.)
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> On 14/06/2013, at 2:17 AM, Mike Lazzari wrote:
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>>> Just as most of us can barely tell the difference between a
>>> standard north-Eastern US voice and a Canadian - I can usually
>>> pick that weird vowel sound but most don't.
>> The main distinction I hear is that in Canukistan there is only one
>> way
>> to pronounce the vowel _a_, i.e. as in tack. On occasion they will
>> stoop
>> to pronounce it as in tay. This has laughable results when using many
>> spanish or other Latin derived words. e.g. aqua>>ackwa or
>> taco>>tayco or
>> worse, tacko.
>>
>> Mike
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