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From: ptholfsen@netos.com (Paul Tholfsen)
Subject: Re: French vowels
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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 96 21:31:39 GMT
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I missed most of the earlier discussions, but here's a question I have, which 
I hope hasn't been covered.

I notice that the French TV announcers, and others of the TV show class seem 
to pronounce the nasal vowel "in" so it sounds to me like "an".  For example, 
the announcer would always say something that sounded to my ears like "et pour 
deman matan" rather than "pour demain matin".  I learned French as a kid in a 
town near Cannes, where "matin" and "matan" have very different 
pronunciations.

So am I hearing things?  Or are the announcers using a different dialect of 
French, or some sort of affected stage pronunciation?

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Paul Tholfsen
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ptholfsen@netos.com
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