Franglais
Wallace Chafe
chafe at linguistics.ucsb.edu
Thu Jun 8 21:28:51 UTC 2006
I guess this carries over to stress placement too, for example a name like
Fischel being given final-syllable stress. And how did the inventor of
dynamite pronounce his name when in Oslo?
> I think some site like language log (or someone like that) discussed this,
> that there's a known pattern in English of assuming that all foreign
> languages pronounce their letters like French.
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