Hi All: I did put out a call for meteorite pronunciation in Meteorite.
Suggested starting languages are: French German Italian Polish Portuguese Spanish Again, any takers? Zelimir: You seem to have, at some level, offered to do this. It does not need to be extensive. Even 5 or so should do for a start (something over 70 if I remember my last email). Larry On Wed, April 30, 2008 12:49 pm, Zelimir Gabelica wrote: > Hi Phil, > > > Your pronunciation for both Orgueil and L'Aigle is just perfect! You > possibly doin't speak French anymore but, at least, your accent is intact. > Perhaps that's the way to progress (page with recorded pronunciations). > And > yes, IMCA could for sure help. > > Zelimir > > > A 13:10 30/04/2008 -0500, Philip R. Burns a écrit : > >> At 12:24 PM 4/30/2008, Zelimir Gabelica wrote: >> >>> Not so. >>> If you pronounce it "or gay", nobody will understand here (although I >>> know that whenever Bob brings along some Orgueil, it is sold before >>> unwrapped!) >>> >>> Basing on pronouncing dyphtongs in French (last link in Darren's post >>> - >>> see below; thanks Darren!), it comes to: >>> >>> "Org j" >>> >>> >>> as in the wikipedia example: /j/ as in feuille "leaf" >> >> Some years ago (2002?) when the question of meteorite pronunciations >> came up, I started a page with French pronunciations: >> >> http://www.pibburns.com/catastro/metprono.htm >> >> >> While I grew up speaking French, I would not claim my pronunciation is >> the best. I don't speak French anymore except when visiting relatives >> in France. >> >> Someone else started up a page with the pronunciations for Polish >> meteorites around that same time. I don't recall who it was, but I >> found that page helpful. >> >> Perhaps the IMCA should undertake a mini-project to collect >> pronunciations from native speakers. >> >> >> -- Philip R. "Pib" Burns >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pibburns.com/ >> >> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> http://www.meteoritecentral.com >> Meteorite-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list >> > > Prof. Zelimir Gabelica > Université de Haute Alsace > ENSCMu, Lab. GSEC, > 3, Rue A. Werner, > F-68093 Mulhouse Cedex, France > Tel: +33 (0)3 89 33 68 94 > Fax: +33 (0)3 89 33 68 15 > > > ______________________________________________ > http://www.meteoritecentral.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
