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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Double 'R'
Message-ID: <2404@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 18:18:02 EST
Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.2404
Posted: Thu Oct 24 18:18:02 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 28-Oct-85 03:44:08 EST
References: <2176@brl-tgr.UUCP> <9500005@prism.UUCP>
Reply-To: wmartin@brl-bmd.UUCP
Organization: USAMC ALMSA, St. Louis, MO
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Summary: Learning this sound...

In article <9500005@prism.UUCP> dawn@prism.UUCP writes:
>	If I remember my high school Spanish at all, one "rolls" a
>	double r (sort of allowing your tongue to flutter a bit while
>	uttering the sound) -- effectively pronouncing it twice. Perhaps 
>	that is why it is "allowed"??

Glad someone opened this topic for me to slide a question in... I have
never been able to do this (rolling the "r" sound), either while
speaking Spanish (had two years of it, but most is now forgotten) or
while trying to fake a Scots accent. Is doing this sort of thing (and
similar vibratory sounds, like the Arab ululation done with a flapping
tongue) something you have to learn as a small child, and is impossible
(or at least very difficult) to teach oneself at a later age? I'd like
to be able to do this sort of thing, but have resigned myself to
accepting that I never will be able to...

Will Martin

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