Ah Rachel, Now I want to know what you see when you watch an Aussie speak. I 
must say I am always horrified to hear recording of myself speaking....way 
too nasal...sound like our DPM (ie deputy prime minister as she is 
affectionately called)- whose pronounciation is overtly  strine.
Karleen Gribble
Australia

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From: "Rachel Myr" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 12:30 AM
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Subject: [LACTNET] tongue tie and language

> When I learned to speak Norwegian, my US-ian teacher used an example I 
> have never forgotten to show the difference in embouchure between speaking 
> US English and Norwegian (and a good number of other languages using 
> super-rounded vowels like u with umlaut in German, or u in French).  She 
> said you can speak US English while holding a pencil between your teeth 
> like a horse's bit without it appreciably affecting how it sounds.  Sure 
> doesn't work in Norwegian!  At least half the sounds are impossible to 
> articulate unless your oral cavity is unimpeded by any foreign objects, 
> including food.
>
> I realized some time later that I unconsciously distinguish North American 
> English speakers from Europeans when traveling by the comparative atrophy 
> of the muscles around their lips. Even before they speak, I can almost 
> pick them out of a line-up.
> 

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