Re: [tied] Russian for Homerus

In Portuguese, although we dont have the aspirated "h", these names with "h"
are maintained in the graphy, although the common Portuguese wrong pronounce
of this sound is alike velar R (rr), specially in Rio de Janeiro accent,
where the "rr" is pronnounced very similar to "h". So, the pronnounce of
word "Rio" is almost the same as English "hill".

Joao SL

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To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 11:11 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Russian for Homerus


<mailto:S.Tarasovas@..." <S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:
> >while "Western European" aspirated H- gives G-.
> This practice has changed since the middle of the 20th century, so
> the newer borrowings have <x>.

But my students in Moscow told me about a newspaper article with the
headline 'Dirty Garry', referring to Velikobritaniya's Prince Harry,
and his supposed pot-smoking!

Gitler amuses, but Gavaii had me quite confused for a while, until
Gonolulu was mentioned. And yet the WWII memorial plaque in the
Kreml' records a certain Eyzjen_kh_auer Duayt Deyvid for the SShA
[along with Montgomeri Bernard Lou, Velikobritaniya; Rolya-Zhimerskiy
Mikhail, Pol'sha; Tito Iosip Broz, YUgoslaviya; and Korol' Mikhai 1,
Rumyniya].

>AFAIK,
> <Xeléna> (or <Geléna>) occures only to render Polish <Helena>.

I once taught an Estonian/Ruthenian lady by the name of Xelina
Fyedorchuk, but I think her name was a deliberate exoticism on begalf
of her parents. [She told me her Rusynski father had been
a 'shepherd of cows', and was quite taken with my suggestion that he
had been a cowboy all along...]

Ben




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