"Ram" rhymes with "Tom" while "Rum" rhymes with "bum". Also it is
highly improvable the writer knows ANY Sanskrit. :-D
On 02/26/2014 01:01 PM, [email protected] wrote:
In Sanskrit, vowels save the short a-sound are "pure". I guess another
way to express
that is they are "non-reduced".
I'm quite certain that for native speakers of English the "impurity"
of the short
a-sound in Sanskrit is easier to hear than for those whose native
languages have only pure
vowel sounds, like e.g. Italian and Finnish.
Be it as it may, I think the short a-sound in Sanskrit *might* be
closer to vowel sounds
like 'aw' in English 'raw', but short.
Listening to the pronunciation of 'rum' in Google translator rendered
me quite shure
it'sfairly close to the Sanskrit pronunciation of 'ram', whereas
pronouncing that (ram)
according to the phonetic rules of English might make it too
frontal(?), like the a-sound e.g.
in 'bat'.
