Well, in America at least, "blech" is an _expression_ of distaste.On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
On Saturday 12 November 2011 13:16:16 Luke Bergen wrote:Sounds right to me. The sound occurs in Spanish (which doesn't distinguish it
> ahhhhh that makes sense. So the "h"iness comes from the fact that it's a
> continuous air-flow and the "k"ness comes from the fact that it's the back
> of your tongue. Fail the continuous flow and it sounds like a "k". Fail
> to restrict the flow with the back of the tongue and it sounds like "h".
> Does that sound about right?
from [h]; both original "h" and "h" derived from "f" are silent), Russian
(which has [h] as an allophone of /g/ so Russians go to the gospital), and
Arabic (which distinguishes it from both /h/ and /χ/). Hindi has
aspirated "k" instead, and I don't know about Chinese.
By the way, "Blech" is German for "sheet metal". Recycle bins have a
compartment for Weißblechdosen (tin cans).
Pierre
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