Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!seismo!brl-tgr!wmartin 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 Lines: 19 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 UUCP/USENET: seismo!brl-bmd!wmartin or ARPA/MILNET: wmartin@almsa-1.ARPA