Re: Stød and rising tone

> Aren't tones in West Germanic dialects mostly related
> to semantics and syntax (and emotional expression) rather
> than being peculiarities of individual words? Besides,
> the tones of the North Germanic dialects are much more
> pleasing to the ear, in my opinion.

Personally, I like the Liverpool dialect. Very musical.

Now of course I have no intuition in the area, but
is there any other way of pronouncing eg. American
Southern 'Hot damn!' than with rising - falling
(or 'Damn!' with falling tone)?

Torsten