As a child I had 3 years of speech therapy for a similar problem. Today, I still cannot say some words and simply avoid the words. I feel sorry for the German Girl. I could not say "th" "st" or some complicated words before the therapy. When I was in my 40's I met a person who was an actor on stage. Gorgeous man with a musical voice. However, after the performance, I found out that he stammered - very badly. I later learned from him that if you hear a word that you cannot say you can "parrot" the word correctly. As such, I have "learned" to say words that I could never say before.
Andrea Sommers In Las Vegas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Malvary Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Arachne chat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 9:06 PM Subject: Re: [lace-chat] :) Fwd: A magnificent mess: English! > <<Finally, which rhymes with enough -- > Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough? > Hiccough has the sound of cup. > My advice is to give up!!!>> > > This verse reminded me of summer meal times when we were growing up. One > year I remember in particular, we had a German girl staying and grammar was > very much a part of meal times, as well as correct pronunciation. Because > she could not pronounce words with "th" she always had to carefully > enunciate and would practice where to put her tongue so that it came out as > "th" and not "z". We also taught her the various pronuncations and words > ending in ough, but could not explain why they were different. > > Malvary, where summer is finally creeping in and I might get to use my > newly installed air conditioning one of these days > > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
