VV(18): Melanie L'Heuremaudit

[Dave Monroe]

Well, wait'll you have a full-on cold or sinus
infection or somesuch going.  Or 'til yr American. 
But, again, whatever strikes my free-associative
fancy.  Reminds me, though, in Mark Twain's
Huckleberry Finn, remember when HF is trying to get
across that there are various languages to Jim?  When
MT/SC caricatues his pronunciation of French?  If HF
learned what he knows of the language from the printed
page (which is what he says), how's he come up with
the pronunciations he does?  Esp. given his very
American indeed pronunciation otherwise?  And don't
even get me started on Tarzan ...

--- Samuel Moyer <smoyer at satx.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Monroe" <davidmmonroe at hotmail.com>
> 
> >
> > But it just occured to me that, spoken out loud,
> "Melanie l'Heuremaudit"
> > sounds not unlike "Melody Harmony," esp. if said
> speaker has sinus
> problems
> > ...
> 
> I really hate to be picky, especially because this
> is an interesting
> observation and true if you Americanize the
> pronunciation...
> 
> But in French it would be pronounced without an h
> sound sort of like Leur -
> Maw - dee.  Sorry to be so anal... Has to be the 95
> degree heat.
> 
> S
> 


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