Sorry Yid not intended as racial slur. But what else would you call someone who speaks Yiddish?...
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anjarrette
May 27, 2010 3:36 am
Oh, OK, so I was right about "Q.E." = "Kiwi". I take it you know that the former is /kjuwi/ ([kju:wi:, kju:i:, kju:?i:, etc.]) while the latter is /kiwi/...
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David
parked71
May 27, 2010 3:33 am
Oh duh! Finally the penny drops. That's very funny ;-) I've never been mistaken for a Swiss or Austrian or Yid*. But when I speak German, I have been mistake...
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anjarrette
May 27, 2010 3:29 am
What the Hell is Queue Ealand?!?!? LOL! I thought "Q.E." might be a not-wholly-accurate letter transcription of "Kiwi". But Qew Ealander and Queue Ealand?????...
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adam.skoog
May 26, 2010 10:04 pm
I'm not saying that this _is_ PG....
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adam.skoog
May 26, 2010 10:02 pm
Long [E] sounds weird and is harder to pronounce in front of [gl] than [a] is....
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chamavian
May 26, 2010 8:48 pm
Ya, but it actually isn't, because ProtoGeranic had [I] and [U], and the lengthened versions are [e:] and [o:], not [i:] and [u:]...
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chamavian
May 26, 2010 8:42 pm
or in more FS like spelling: Ki-Wi-Land...
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chamavian
May 26, 2010 8:42 pm
No, he meant: why does [rEgn] have a short vowel, and [ha:gl] a long one, when you both spell them similarly...
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chamavian
May 26, 2010 8:37 pm
A chap from Queue Ealand, what else....
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adam.skoog
May 26, 2010 5:34 pm
You could always record the pronunciation yourself, I guess. My other suggestions would be [rEn], [rEI)n], [ha:l] and [haI)l], but [rEgn] and [ha:gl] are much...
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adam.skoog
May 26, 2010 5:31 pm
It felt more right and etymological, I guess....
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David
parked71
May 24, 2010 6:26 am
Sorry I'm no wiser after hearing the full word. What's a Qew Ealander?...
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chamavian
May 24, 2010 6:08 am
And abbreviation for a Qew Ealander ......
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anjarrette
May 24, 2010 3:07 am
What's a Q.E.? AJ...
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chamavian
May 23, 2010 5:56 am
I guess the Swiss timbre was also because of the long consonants. Btw I always find a Swiss accent in German sound quite similar to a Dutch accent. E.g. Swiss...
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David Parke
parked71
May 22, 2010 9:58 pm
Hi Ingmar, I assume that what makes you hear Swiss/Austrian/Yiddish is the quality of the [r]. I was unsure of what type of r's are commonly used in Platt/Low...
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chamavian
May 22, 2010 9:27 pm
It sounds to me a bit as if a speaker of Swiss or Austrian German, or Yiddish, speaks Platt ;-) but that's pretty darn good for a Q.E.! But more important:...
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David Parke
parked71
May 22, 2010 8:42 am
Hi Andrew, Well I haven't even heard a lot of genuine Platt. The Wren tales on the Lowlands List site are most of the genuine Platt that I've ever listened to....
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anjarrette
May 22, 2010 8:19 am
David, that can't possibly be you reading "Bit de end fun de wereld", can it? The person reading sounds like a native speaker of Platt. Are you that good at...
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chamavian
May 22, 2010 6:10 am
Yes it looks fine. But I have a question: why do duner and himel have a long vowel [u:] and [i:]?...
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folkspraak@yahoogroup...
May 21, 2010 10:24 am
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the folkspraak group. File : /Audio...
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David
parked71
May 20, 2010 10:08 pm
Welcome back Adam. It looks good. I don't think that "regn" should really be pronounced as ["rEgn"] with a short [E] sound. This word is the same "shape" as a...
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adam.skoog
May 20, 2010 7:57 pm
Sorry for not being active in some time. I'll try to contribute a bit more. Right now, I have a word list again. This time I just generated the HTML from my...
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David
parked71
May 17, 2010 4:58 am
I've found out that you can go onto Google translate and get it to synthesize speech from text. If you choose the same language as both the source and the...
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chamavian
May 8, 2010 8:18 am
... Well, it's immediately recognizable as meaning "slogan". Also because Dutch does have "slagzin" = slogan sentence, a line from an ad, e.g. "Guinness is...
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David Parke
parked71
May 8, 2010 6:40 am
... It's fortunate that FS isn't designed for Dutch speakers exclusively ;-) It's a bit of a situation with no clear majority. On one hand you have English and...
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chamavian
May 7, 2010 5:35 am
Hei David Good work again ... a few remarks PANNKAK PANN + KAK To Dutch eyes and ears this sounds like pan shit... Kak = shit. In Dutch it's with short A, but...
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David
parked71
May 6, 2010 11:18 pm
View with UTF-8 encoding to see all the letters. GEWISS, also WISS a. = certain, sure adv. = certainly, indeed, truly a. = gewiss, bestimmt, sicher a. =...
