On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 10:29:05PM +0000, Stewart Gordon wrote: > On 08/03/2012 19:29, H. S. Teoh wrote: > <snip> > >Another thing is, I can't roll my R's. My tongue as stiff as a stick > >and just refuses to roll anything, no matter how hard I try. > <snip> > > I can't roll my tongue either. I'm told it's genetic. :) > > But anyway, to me, rolling Rs seems pretentious.... [...]
Well, it's pretentious in English, but quite mellifluous in Russian. :-) Though I'm told that even for native Russian speakers, it's one of the last sounds acquired, so it must be pretty difficult. (And to make things worse, they have *two* rolled R's, one palatized, one not. As if one R isn't hard enough already.) T -- Doubt is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
