From: Stephen Carlson (scc@reston.icl.com)
Date: Wed Sep 20 1995 - 14:04:29 EDT
Carl W. Conrad wrote:
> But here's a challenge to accentual pronunciation: how do you pronounce a
> word with a circumflex on the penult and an acute on the ultima and
> followed by a string of enclitics, such as, for example:
>
> ANQRW=PO/N TINA/ TI/ MOI EIPO/NTA
No problem! I'm one of those people with the atrocious habit of
accenting my spoken Greek according to rules of Classical Latin. A
similar psychological process probably accounts for my pronouncing
Estonian with an Italian accent.
Stephen Carlson
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