pronunciation clarification

Ájík · Mar 16, 2007

Eleshar":2djwigqy said:

I have nothing against your grandmother as she speaks a dialect. But In terms of defiling the standard language I think the Moravians and Czechs do not have anything to complain about each other. I admit that the Czech vocalic openness and protetic V may sound horribly but so does Moravian closedness (Moravian vowels are relatively equally different from standard pronunciation as the Czech ones but precisely from the other side of Hellwag's triangle). The problem with assimilation before unique vowels (vowels without unvoiced counterpart) like M is that in Bohemia, it is a sociophonetic trait of low education. People who pronounce "demokracie" as [de.mo.gra.tsi.je] or "frekvence" as [fre.gven.tse] are generally considered as ineducated and Moravian "jsme" [zme] is exactly the case. And recently it is used more and more by politicians about whom one can never know whether it is due to their low education or their Moravian origin... or both.
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Mostly I can agree with You. Moravia or Bohemia- there is no better and worse.

Sova · Mar 16, 2007

Ájík":3i3nij3j said:

Mostly I can agree with You. Moravia or Bohemia- there is no better nor worse.
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When I read this last quote, myslel sem také, že je po mňa- smrť na mňa šáhla! The Czechs and Moravians agreeing on such a thing! Heart attack! :lol:

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