CtahhR Wrote:It is rather difficult to contradict what the booklet says, when it only says what it says and can not say anything else.
If you would like to indicate where in the booklet it does say that Ж is J or that I asserted anywhere that this was anything other than a wartime tool for German-Russian interaction I am also open to seeing that.
You seem to like to contradict points that are not there to be contradicted.
Feel free to post the wartiime French study booklet for communicating with Russians and we can discuss that. Although it does seem that your usual contribution to the forum is dissent rather than anything positive or educational.
In my second message I formulated critics about the form of your messages. But in my first post, about the substance (?) of the debate, without any personnal attack, I pointed the fact the letters equivalence is clearly intended for a german pronounciation.
The Ж is a "zh" in english, a J in french, a "ye" (would be the word "yod" correct to translate the sound?) in german. Logically no need for further debate...
About french pronounciation, no need for a wartime booklet, a 2013 edition of a Harraps and co will provide this to everyone...
CtahhR Wrote:Many letters can be said many ways - often within the same dialect, let alone language.
If every letter was only ever pronounced in a single way no matter what its position in a word or sentence English (and other languages) would sound very different indeed.
Latin script can be very flexible indeed. Just look how many Latin letters sound when used in Welsh. I'm sure we could find hundreds of thousands of examples of letters not sounds how they "should" in various languages.
I personally like the y in Byrne. This is without mentioning silent letters....
you turn around the bush and do not answer to Auke because it didn't go in your way.
This way of leading the debate is not worthy of a moderator status.
I don't want your head at the end of a pike ( like we did in 1789), but I only want to explain your tone seems tiring, not only for me.
Please could we take profit of your huge collection and really appreciable researches without this curious tone?
Sebastien
"a spectre haunts Europe, the spectre of communism"
(a well-known german bearbed)
"a spectre haunts Europe, the spectre of communism"
(a well-known german bearbed)
