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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mecki --</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"So, can't you guys decide which language to speak,
tell the rest of <BR>the world and make it easier for all of us
:-)"</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Um, Mecki... hate to break it to you but German's
just as bad. Since I started taking german in seventh grade I have had to
deal with Swabian, Bavarian, Viennese, and especially Stierish. Sure, the
germans complain about we english speakers and all the different versions
thereof --and obivously, completely forget how frustrating it is to try to
decipher what the toothless old lady at the farmer's market is saying, as she
only speaks very strong dialect and doesn't understand high
german...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>i have yet to meet a student of any language who
doesn't complain about it. (i once was treated to a 20 minute lecture by a
slovenian, who griped about having to learn bosno-croatian in school and how
frustrating he'd found it -- of course, i learned later that the two languages
are very very closely related and it's nowhere near as tough as he'd made
out...)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>abbie, tongue firmly in cheek, an expression that
does not translate well but is fun to use anyway :)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><A href="mailto:starling823@yahoo.com">starling823@yahoo.com</A><BR>69%
obsessed with HP and loving it<BR>"Ah, music," Dumbledore said, wiping his
eyes. "A magic beyond all we do
here!"<BR> -HP and the
Sorcerer's Stone</DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A href="mailto:meckelburg@foni.net"
title=meckelburg@foni.net>meckelburg@foni.net</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
href="mailto:HPFGU-OTChatter@yahoogroups.com"
title=HPFGU-OTChatter@yahoogroups.com>HPFGU-OTChatter@yahoogroups.com</A>
<B>Sent:</B> Monday, 07 May, 2001 3:06 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [HPFGU-OTChatter] Re:
Pronunciations</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><TT>--- In <A
href="mailto:HPFGU-OTChatter@y...">HPFGU-OTChatter@y...</A>, "Amy Z" <<A
href="mailto:aiz24@h...">aiz24@h...</A>> wrote:<BR>Hi Amy!<BR>we do go
nuts, believe me!<BR>I'm German, but moved to Australia as a 7year- old. so, I
learn <BR>australian english. Four years later we went back to Germany, I had
to <BR>learn the complete German grammar etc. as if it were a foreign
<BR>language (we kids always found excuses not to speak German in
<BR>Australia). In school, we had English and I thought "Oh, how nice! An
<BR>easy subject". Our teacher came from the UK and every 2nd sentance to
<BR>me was "wrong pronunciation". I blocked completely, and it took me So,
can't you guys decide which language to speak, tell the rest of <BR>the world
and make it easier for all of us :-)<BR><BR><BR>years to believe (and I'm
still not sure sometimes (you loose so much <BR>of a language if you don't
practise regularly)) I can speak "English" <BR>- Whatever that is
<vbg><BR><BR>Mecki<BR><BR>>; Someone, somewhere must have written a
thorough history of English <BR>> pronunciation. There is certainly
no firm logic to the <BR>pronunciation <BR>> of English in any
country. People who learn it as a second language <BR>> must go
nuts.<BR>> <BR>> N.B.: We don't drop the H in the name Herb, just
the plants. <BR>>; Important to remember if you're talking to a
Herb.<BR>> <BR>> Amy Z<BR><BR></TT><BR><BR><TT>To
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