[lit-ideas] Re: [lit-ideas] Re: un petit hommage à l'herbe
- From: Renée Morel <reneemorel@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:18:54 -0800
Hwhat these French people are hearing? That the Anglos have this annoying
habit of
pronouncing the [h] sound all the time. Most French people can't be
bothered as it is
too alien for them to pronounce a silent letter (in a scene of "Last Tango
in Paris" Maria
Schneider famously says "a war" when she means "a whore").
When the French do make an effort, they sprinkle their sentences with [h]s, but
are
not too particular about where these fall. Very often, the [h] will be
anticipated,
which
betrays a certain amount of stress about it (a visiting professor at UC
Berkeley once
referred to the actress Maureen O'Hara as "Maureen Ho 'ara," with a very
forceful [h]).
Renée Morel
(Do you pronounce "witch" and "which" differently?)
2012/2/20 Walter C. Okshevsky <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
> The same reason, mutatis mutandas (sp?, sorry my Spanish isn't what it
> used to
> be), that Paul Ricoeur, Michelle Foucault and their ilk insist on adding
> an "h"
> to their "wh" words in English. It almost drove me crazy in their
> seminars! If
> not for the aesthetic charms of their translators, I would have dropped
> out.
>
> Examples:
>
> Paul: "I do not know hwhy Gadamer recapitulates (he means "repeats")
> Heidegger's
> conflation of truth and meaning."
>
> Michelle: "We remain unclear hwhy in the Alcibiades the classical Greek
> virtues
> are (not) put into question." (Hwe hwere never clear on hwhich he meant.)
>
> Not understanding hwhat these French people are "hearing,"
>
> Hwalter O.
>
> Quoting Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>:
>
> > Why do Americans call herbs erbs?
> >
> > Robert Paul,
> > worried
>
>
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