Re: [norse_course] Þér/þeir/þær

At 14:24 25.1.2001 EST, Eysteinn wrote:

>Do you have any problems distinguishing between the
>four L-words in the following English sentence?
>
>Let the Light be Lit Late!
>
>Similarly there should be no trouble with:
>
>"Þeir vega þær með þér".

And then Tim wrote:

>The English vowels in your example are much more different from each other
>than the Norse ones are, but I take your point.

Eysteinn writes again:

I disagree, but I'm bad at phonetics, so I'll let Óskar
decide. If you'd ask an Icelander to write out the English
sentence in Icelandic, he would come up with something like
this for the four L-words:

Let = Lett
Light = Læt
Lit = Litt
Late = Leit

Lett ðö læt bí litt leit!

E.