hard sounds

[Edil Legno]

I think I didn't express very well my ideas. One thing is the harder mode of pronunciation and another the sign of lacking in education. Tbe geographical part which is very close to Bratislava is called Zahorie.From here and from Trnava are usually the people which pronounce  all sounds di-ti-ni-li and  de-te-ne-le only in hard mode.As those people (in the past)were
usually peasants and very simple persons ,with no education,
the way how they pronounce these sounds - made a bigger  mark on  the difference between the  so-called people with education and non. They were a lot of jokes on the past communist governers because of their  hard mode of pronunciation. Someone of those past com.politics had a very low level of education  (only evening schools)  .The correct pronunciation of some words:peasant is sedliak,they pronounce it like "sedlak". the word "kde" with soft-de- they pronounce it only with hard - de-. Word Bratislava - hard -ti-is pronounced only by foreigners and "zahoraci".Educated Slovak NEVER will
pronounce it that way.That's why it's considered just a lacking in education.

Best wishes
Katarìna Peitlovà,Ph.Dr.

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