Chuck De Paolo wrote: >I imagine in Europe and other places where a rolled "r" is part of the >spoken language it's a no-brainer, but in the US, we don't use that >technique for any speech.
I think that when speaking english you keep your tongue more backwards than we do in Italian; in that position, it is impossible to pronounce our "R". Here, people who can't pronounce R are extremely rare, and those cases are obviously due to some cultural (not genetic) cause. It is interesting to note that the French R has a relatively recent origin, from a court fashion. Daniel Canarutto mathematical physicist & dedicated amateur hornist http://www.dma.unifi.it/~canarutto/ http://www.corno.it _______________________________________________ Horn mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/listinfo/horn
