Re: History of French

From: Ruud Harmsen (realemailseesite01_at_rudhar.com)
Date: 09/19/04 

Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 00:49:34 +0200

Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:23:26 GMT: "Peter Dy" <peterdy@sbcglobal.net>: in
sci.lang:

>I used to wonder if this were also the case for some learning Spanish in
>South American countries that drop off the final "s" on just about every
>word, as far as I could tell. Even "tres" is "tre".

Some (Cubans and Argentinians?) don't actually drop final s, but
pronounce them as [h]. That may be difficult to hear for speakers of
languages that don't have final h (and even languages that do, like
Arabic and Hebrew, tend to lose them), but these Spanish final h's are
usually clearly there. Sometimes they mix them with remnants of the
original [s]. Some sort of s-like approximant maybe.
Fidel Cahtro.
It's also clearly audible on some tango CDs I have. 

-- 
Ruud Harmsen - http://rudhar.com

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