GZG List archives -- April 2008
Re: [GZG] Full Thrust Lite
This from the guy with the Tom Lehrer quote in his signature.
"Hen3ry... the 3 is silent." :)
--Greg
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Oerjan Ariander wrote:
> Mike Llaneza wrote:
>
>> Oerjan Ariander wrote:
>>>> Actually, for a language derived from the attempts of French speaking
>>>> soldiers to pick up German speaking barmaids, we have remarkably regular
>>>> rules for pronunciation; it's just that far too many of them come from
>>>> French.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Although "Slough", though... :-p
>>>
>>> (Hint: the placename above does *not* rhyme with the other two words :-/ )
>>>
>> Great example, but...
>> That's both a proper noun, which type tends to have unique
>> pronunciation,
>
> Sorry, but as a furriner I really *don't* consider being a proper noun to
> be a valid excuse for not following the same pronounciation rules as other
> word classes... :-)
>
> Regards,
>
> Oerjan
> orjan.ariander1@xxxxxxxxx
>
> "Life is like a sewer.
> What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
> -Hen3ry
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Gzg-l mailing list
> Gzg-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> http://vermouth.csua.berkeley.edu:1337/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gzg-l
>
_______________________________________________
Gzg-l mailing list
Gzg-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://vermouth.csua.berkeley.edu:1337/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gzg-l
Main Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Archive Index
roger@nospam.firedrake.org
Generated: Thu May 01 01:07:20 GMT 2008