On 2008-06-11 09:28, tgpedersen wrote:
> Indirectly, German is the direct source here.
> I've that some circles in 18th century Russia uewd uvular /R/ too.
I'm a case of spontaneous innovation (no external source in my case). I
use a uvular trill [R] when speaking Polish; as a true trill it is, I
believe, more like old-fashioned popular Parisian than Standard French).
My children have remained unaffected, though.
For all enthusiasts of things rhotic -- a display of Czech r's, with
emphasis on the syllabic variety:
http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7s_o_I5zCo
Piotr