Paul Johnson wrote:
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 09:33, Mike McCarty wrote:Paul Johnson wrote:Nope, it's Jägermeister. It's one of my favorite drinks.Pardon, but in this context the appropriate form is to expand the umlaut. It is inappropriate to put characters like that into a text-only message.There isn't anything non-ISO about "ä", including it in a message doesn't make it "not text only". The "ae" is a poorman form of "æ".In any case, the articulation of the english /j/ and the german /j/ is not the same.It has more of a /y/ sound in German, no?
That's difficult to say. I dunno what you mean by "more
of a /y/ sound".
The phoneme /y/ occurs in German, but it sounds nothing
to my ears like /j/ in either language.
The german /j/ is articulated more forcefully than the
english /j/, and with the tip of the tongue pointed down
rather than up, as in English. It is also more aspirated
in German.
Mike
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