On (12 Jul 06) Malte Schmidt wrote to George Pope...
 MS> GP> Weird -- in mosquito it sounds to me like
"myuckenstick" while in
 MS> very it
 MS> GP> sounds like "ueber". . . distinctly different
vowel sounds to my
 MS> ear!
 MS>
 MS> Well, i just listened to my file again. I do a good job and speak it
 MS> very
 MS> clearly, I believe. :)
 MS>
 MS> Apart from being shorter it should be the same sound, but of course
 MS> the
 MS> influence of the adjacent letters become greater if the vowel is
 MS> short.
 MS>
 MS> Maybe the influence of the "m" is making it difficult to understand
 MS> what
 MS> sound belongs to what. What you might hear probably is either an
 MS> artefact
 MS> or belongs to the "m".

Maybe it's an after-effect of the 'm' then. . .

 MS> I could give you further examples of the "�" long and short in
 MS> different
 MS> "environments", if you care to listen to them!

If you are willing to do the effort, I care to listen to them, thank
you! :)

Because I care,
|<+]::-)  (Cyberpope(the Bishop of ROM!))


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