From: Trevor & Julie Peterson (06peterson@cua.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 06 2002 - 12:06:30 EST
So far, that description sounds almost exactly like Buth's reconstruction.
Trevor Peterson
CUA/Semitics
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> From: Andrew.Wergeland@mf.no [mailto:Andrew.Wergeland@mf.no]
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> >Does location make a difference in pronunciation? My profs
> studied primarily
> >in Canada and England (except for Bruce Fisk, who did his PhD at Duke, I
> >believe).
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> I am an American living in Norway and learned Koine here. I remember my
> teacher talking about being an "exchange teacher" at Luther
> College in Iowa
> and having to change his pronounciation for a summer in order to make it
> more in line with the Anglo-american tradition. I assume we in Norway are
> most influenced by a German pronounciation tradition, but probably with a
> Scandinavian twist. As an example, we do not say "p-NEW-ma", but rather
> "p-NEV-ma". EU is "ev", AU is "av" (a as in father), OU is "oo" (as in
> room), C is palatal not velar (but I think the Swedes might do this
> differently) and U alone is pronounced as a Norwegian "y" (like
> saying "ee"
> (as in meet) with rounded lips).
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