From: Jan van Steenbergen (ijzeren_jan@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Fri May 23 2003 - 03:01:59 EST
--- Padraic Brown skrzypszy:
> > Hey, some of you have asked what Carrajena
> > sounds like. I don't have the required equipment
> > to give you a REAL sample of C-a, but I just
> > found a REALLY cool approximation!
Hmm, strange, is that really an approximation? Somehow, I imagined the sound of
Carradjena quite differently. Isn't Rosa doing a better job in Spanish?
> Tres di modd! Try having Pierre say "así se
> kerrnow le ouigainde mil, et savourjenti ferqué!"
> In French, obvoiously.
Yes, Pierre seems quite a reasonable guy, although he looks suspiciously much
like Audrey.
> Apart from the dreadfull French accent, it's not
> bad. They _need_ a Welsh voice! ;)
And a Polish voice! That's the frustrating thing about it: there are only these
four languages. A Polish speaking Pierre/Audrey (Piotr? Agnieszka?) would give
a better representation of Wenedyk than I could possibly do, but alas! I tried
the sentence "Nacion' sien' le~gwy jest nacion' sien' krodzi" for all speakers,
but one butchered it even worse than the other.
However, if you change the orthography a bit, then you get quite a reasonable
result. Ask Reiner to say the following sentence in German:
"Nazionnj schenj lengwi jest nazionn schenj kroddschie!"
Apart from the dreadfull German accent, it's not bad. Actually, it's quite a
correct representation of Wenedyk. With some good will, it could be the
pronunciation of a Vened who spent a little too many years as an émigré in
Germany.
Jan
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