Message Forum: Re: I believe the term here is "Pshaw".

Re: I believe the term here is "Pshaw".

Posted By: Fuzzpilz, on host 141.53.194.251
Date: Saturday, November 30, 2002, at 04:58:00
In Reply To: Re: I believe the term here is "Pshaw". posted by Eric Sleator on Friday, November 29, 2002, at 21:05:00:

> I think I've finally got the uvular r down, although it still gives me hell when I want to say a word that starts with "ru", like "Ruhe". The alveolar trilled r (like the "rr" in Spanish) is pretty easy for me, as I grew up in southern California. (What do you mean by "soft English r"?)
>
Again, bad choice of words on my part. What I meant was the untrilled, sort of l-like r. I don't know what the formal name of the phoneme is, embarrassingly.

> -Eric Sleator
> Fri 29 Nov A.D. 2002

Fuzzpilz

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Re: I believe the term here is "Pshaw". - Eric Sleator - Sat, 11/30/2002, 11:41:23
- Re: I believe the term here is "Pshaw". - Fuzzpilz - Sat, 11/30/2002, 16:35:11

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Message:	> > I think I've finally got the uvular r down, although it still gives me hell when I want to say a word that starts with "ru", like "Ruhe". The alveolar trilled r (like the "rr" in Spanish) is pretty easy for me, as I grew up in southern California. (What do you mean by "soft English r"?) > > > Again, bad choice of words on my part. What I meant was the untrilled, sort of l-like r. I don't know what the formal name of the phoneme is, embarrassingly. > > > -Eric Sleator > > Fri 29 Nov A.D. 2002 > > Fuzzpilz
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