Re: potto

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 70651
Date: 2013-01-09

I've heard among Paulistanos and Gaúchos living in the US

--- On Tue, 1/8/13, Joao S. Lopes <josimo70@...> wrote:

From: Joao S. Lopes <josimo70@...>
Subject: Re: [tied] potto
To: "cybalist@yahoogroups.com" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Tuesday, January 8, 2013, 9:14 AM

 

For a lusophonous, c^r is almost unpronounceable.

JS Lopes



De: Brian M. Scott <bm.brian@...>
Para: Joao S. Lopes <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Enviadas: Terça-feira, 8 de Janeiro de 2013 11:33
Assunto: Re: [tied] potto

 
At 5:12:53 AM on Tuesday, January 8, 2013, Joao S. Lopes
wrote:

> De: Rick McCallister gabaroo6958@...>

>> Yes, in much of Latin American Spanish, sounds like
>> chr- and sounds like zhr or shr- Costa Rica,
>> Guatemala, Bogotá, parts of southern Mexico, of Chile and
>> Argentina are famous for this pronunciation. I've read
>> that this pronunciation also exists in some Portuguese
>> dialects. It also supposedly exists in northern
>> Vietnamese, Czech, Gaelic, etc.

> In Portuguese, never, at least in Brazil. Is  this ch like
> German ich?  

No, English.

Brian