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Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6011 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh
| Message 9 of 11 21 July 2009 at 2:03pm | IP Logged |
Can anyone assure me that charlmartell's posts actually exist? Just in case I'm having a paranoid schizophrenic episode and imagining this rather obsessive critic of mine.
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How do you know? Via the same source that informed you that most Latin American accents sound just like Andalusian? |
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Which I never said.
charlmartell wrote:
Cainntear wrote:
The B sound usually occurs at the end of a word or phrase,
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Could you give us an example of a word or phrase ending in a B sound?
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I meant start. A very silly mistake to make, but there you go.
Edited by Cainntear on 21 July 2009 at 2:05pm
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| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6272 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French
| Message 10 of 11 21 July 2009 at 3:53pm | IP Logged |
I read somewhere that, especially in Latin America, the two are confused with one another, and while Spanish spelling is largely phonetic, this is probably the main exception.
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Hencke Tetraglot Moderator Spain Joined 6894 days ago 2340 posts - 2444 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Finnish, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map
| Message 11 of 11 21 July 2009 at 9:34pm | IP Logged |
As far as we have been able to determine from the fifty-five or so times this issue has been discussed before, the two pronunciations are not confused anywhere, though they might be more distinctly separate in some variants.
On the other hand b and v are pronounced the same, and they are supposed to, no confusion there. (with one possible really special exception that someone brought up, but I can't remember what it was right now, and not everyone was convinced about it)
On both of these points it makes no difference whether we look at Latin American or European Spanish, at least not the main variants - it is always possible that an isolated area somewhere turns out to be different but there hasn't been anything convincing along those lines up to now.
Edited by Hencke on 21 July 2009 at 9:39pm
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