Re:       Re: Kant

RonButters at AOL.COM RonButters at AOL.COM
Tue Apr 5 16:34:01 UTC 2005


In a message dated 4/4/05 3:07:04 PM, zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU writes:


> i claimed no such thing.  i said that the Monty Python version (in
> *english*) had [kaent].  you can listen to the recordings.  the actual
> german vowel is further back than [ae], and would be approximated (but
> only approximated) in english by the first vowel of "father" (which is
> not too far off on quality, but is definitely too long).
> 
> arnold
> 

I have heard it pronounced with the vowel of English <butt>, but maybe that 
was Franconian dialect.



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