re: German Noises?

[Jeanette Gugler <jgugler@mindspring.com>]

Poster: Jeanette Gugler <jgugler@mindspring.com>

At 02:17 06/18/97 EDT, you wrote:
>
>Poster: teege1@juno.com (Thomas J Kirchner)
>
>>Poster: "Efenwealt Wystle" <efen@hotmail.com>
>>
>>And then there's Eogan MacAlpin who maintains that words from foreign 
>>languages should be pronounced like English words. (Only sissies roll 
>>their "r"s and pronounces those throaty german "chhh" noises.) I just 
>>thought he'd like to see his name mentioned here too.
>
>HEY HEY HEY!!!!! ANNNNDDD what's so wrong with those German noises?
>
>Ich bin ein landschnecht.  NEIN ich bin poofta!
>
>(Man my German is rusty.)
>
Vielleicht Sie sind ein Landsknecht?
	-- I hope you were paid well!  ;^)

Practice, practice.  And a trusty Worterbuch at hand! 
(I think those German "noises" sound so much prettier than those nasal
intonations of the French.)

Sei es nicht spassig, ist es nicht richtig gemacht!


Theodora von Schmetterlingswald		jgugler@mindspring.com
	Elvengast, Windmaster's Hill, late of Caer Anterth Mawr
Argent, a fess azure, ermined argent, 
between three pine trees couped sable and a butterfly azure.

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