[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Speaking 'properly' or not

[Ladi lyndi]

richard wrote:
 
I do find that one hard =o)
In the war if the Dutch resistance suspected a new recruit
of being a German infiltrator they would swing the conversation
round to the point where the suspect had to pronounce 
Scheveningen. A non-native *never* gets this right and in
that particular case, this would lead to acute lead-poisoning =o/

Lynn:
 
I beg to differ that a non-native speaker *never* gets the "sch" right.  Scheveningen is probably the only word I pronounce correctly in Dutch.  LOL  Of course, I was told that it sounded like I had a Limberg accent.  My husband's parents and stepdad were in the resistance and his stepdad was fond of telling stories about how Germans would try to speak Dutch and never could get it right.  
 
Now if I could only pronounce koken and keuken so that people could understand the difference!  I've also yet to say sailing where someone understands me.  To my ears I'm pronouncing it correctly - to their ears it is gibberish.  LOL
 
Lynn


 

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