... I had premised mine was kind of a weekend joke :^) ... Isn't there really any practical way to avoid the constant shifting of the stress to the last...
Then tell me, Francesco, how do the Italians pronounce McDonald, where is the stress in the Italian pronunciation. Also, tell me, do the Italians really...
Even within a language group, different dialect speakers will pronounce names differently. You should hear the Birmingham pronunciation of "Birmingham". So...
I should have added: which syllables can be stressed in Italian and how can the irregular stress be marked in the orthography? ;-) Every language treats...
And one more point, if I may: which system is used to render Chinese names in Italy? Here in Czechia, one has to learn three systems: Pinyin, Wade-Giles and...
... I think the problem is that in French, stress the only cue to the position of word boundaries (in Czech too?). Therefore, stressing foreign words according...
... I'll re-sequence them. It's fish-roe, calf of leg -> excrement, vulva, prostitute Once hunter/gatherers meet with pastoralists, a social hierarchy ...
... Well, more or less, yes. ... Precisely. We do have another pattern in Northern Moravia, where penultimate syllables are stressed (just like in Polish), but...
... I think Piotr mentioned that. Does that cause a parsing problem, so to speak, when you or another standard-Czech speaker tries to decode it? BTW, it...
... From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> To: "george knysh" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 6:36 AM Subject: Re[2]: [tied]...
... In a weekend spirit, let me make the following reasoning. "Lénine": French pronunciation <le'nin> But Russian pronunciation is <'ljenin> The French...
Isn't there really any practical way to avoid the constant shifting of the stress to the last syllable in French transliterations or transcriptions of foreign...
... From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> all esprit d'éscalier (please note, Arnaud, no aigu). Torsten ======= interesting, I did not know this phrase...
... More or less like it's pronounced by "mooncow" (male from UK) in the following link: http://forvo.com/word/mcdonald's/ The stress is preserved, yet...
... I think I'm not mistaken if I state that ALL syllables can be stressed in Italian, and that the irregular stress can be ALWAYS marked by an accent in the...
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... I imagine that Gk. <déato> 'appeared, seemed' (3sg. impf.) is at least part of the evidence. Brian...
... Yes, Francesco. That's why I asked this question. Since Italian can stress ANY syllable, there's no problem in keeping the original stress pattern in the...
... Good joke. :-) It's a misreading of the English word, the medial /t/ > [d] due to regressive assimilation. By the way, we say ['kOkakOla] :-D ... Yes, this...
... ========= It's a pity you have never met any of the French people of Italian origin ! A couple of millions, I guess. I know so many people who can speak...
... Are we talking about the Atlantic sturgeon or the North Sea sturgeon now? I expect that the Icelandic and Frisian words refer most often to codfish roe,...
... "The Romance forms of London testify to initial stress in the name at the time of borrowing, as in Londres, Londra. Falc'hun (1981: 298- 9) perversely...
... ======= Sorry for the previous mail I clicked on the wrong button. Well, what's the problem with serving fish-roe ? I've never eaten fish-roe alone, but...
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