Nicaragua

[Mark A. Mandel]

Paul Frank writes:
   >>>>>

Americans pronounce Kant with a long vowel. In German it's pronounced with a
short vowel that to my ears is dangerously close to an English obscenity.
But I'm probably a weirdo for losing any sleep about these things,
especially since I know nothing about phonetics (having slept my way through
phonetics classes at university).
 <<<<<

Non-anglophones note well, this "long vowel" is NOT the so-called "long A"
of "bake" and "bay", a front unrounded mid-high diphthong [eI], but the low
back unrounded vowel of "father" and "park" [a]. Paul is referring to
duration.

-- Mark
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