Re: Pronuciation


"Sheldon" <PENMART01@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Lynn from Fargo>
Victor is right, as usual. Sheldon is wrong, not so usual.

You haven't a clue. My pronunciation is correct... Victor's is not
quite correct, almost but not quite, his *explanation* is more a
kuchen wafflling. I'm positive that you cannot pronounce kuchen... no
matter how hard you try, you just can't.
There are no English sounds for kuchen... languages are funny that
way, many sounds unless learned from the cradle will never be learned
correctly, not ever.. and some will not learn even from the cradle,
they just won't have a proclivity for language. I'm positive if
Victor heard me say kuchen (a disgusting sounding word I must say) he
would agree that my pronunciation is absolutely impeccably correct....
unfortunately usenet doesn't provide for a demonstration, at least I
don't know how.

I agree sort of with your description of how the word sounds are made, but
if I understand what you mean about what the word sounds like, I disagree.
I was going to answer this posting right away before anyone else had posted
but gave up because I couldn't think of how to describe the sounds. My
knowledge of the word comes from grandparents that arrived in this country
on a boat from Germany plus growing up in a community heavily influenced by
German immigrants. . .and German class as taught by Fraulein Wagner.
Despite the consonants, kuchen is a soft-sounding word.
Janet


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