I can't say Toyota without a lot more Toy than ota, and the same for Nissan,
which comes out NEEsahn, kinda like a sneeze, which is still more better than
how it was pronounced by a pretentious former neighbor of ours: nissin, which
rhymed perfectly with pissin'. Glad she's gone. She kept pissin' me off.
Walt
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Garth <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Manuel Viet wrote:
> > Le dimanche 16 Juillet 2006 17:27, Winsor Crosby a écrit :
> >> I was in Japan last year and discovered that Japanese, like French is
> >> unaccented.
> >
> > What do you mean by "unaccented", exacly ?
>
> Little or no EMphasis on certain SYLLables. ;-) Unlike ENGlish, where
> you EMphasize certain parts of some words (and where the EMphasis
> changes depENDing on where in the ENGlish-speaking world you come from).
>
> This lack of syllabic emphasis always trips me up the first few days I'm
> in France visiting relatives. General hilarity ensues.
>
>
> Garth
>
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