On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 06:30:05PM -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > "H. S. Teoh" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... > > On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 10:29:05PM +0000, Stewart Gordon wrote: [...] > >> 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.) > > > > R in general is a very difficult sound no matter what variation of R. > In native English countries, R is one of the most (if not the most) > common sounds for kids to have touble with. ^^^^^^ ahh, the irony :-) I mean, iony.
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