Re: Sob, it's true about uvular R

Wed, 3 Aug 2005 03:03:07 +0200: "G. Leo Sahakian"
<glsah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:

>I take it you are not a portuguese with both a front and a back r:

The majority of Portuguese speakers (both PT and in BR,, in a
different way) is.

>but isn't
>the voiced velar approximant the es. (and pt.?) g in, say, pagar?

You mean for the g? Yes, it is used, but in has nothing to do with r
in either language (es and pt).

>what is this unhealthy fascination with that unpleasant sound (back r's),
>which probably originated as a speech defect and then was aped by snobs to
>end up as very fashionable.

It's only unpleasant if used to often: in da, de, fr and nl I don't
like it (although a native speaker of nl I don't use it myself; many
others do), but in pt I do like it, because there is also the other r,
and the uvular isn't too frequent..


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