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in reply to a message by ClaudiaS
Yeah, maybe its the Slang.
I´m grown up with british English and to me its the very "e" if you have to describe the German sound.
I think its the individual feeling of sound.
But in Germany nobody would say Otili "ay", if we talk about an "ay" as in say.
Greets
I´m grown up with british English and to me its the very "e" if you have to describe the German sound.
I think its the individual feeling of sound.
But in Germany nobody would say Otili "ay", if we talk about an "ay" as in say.
Greets
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Meant it ´cos somebody said its o-till-ee-AY ;-)
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I'm sorry if that was how it was interpreted, as ClaudiaS said, it is difficult to represent the sound in English due to the different pronounciations of sounds. The way I wrote out the pronounciation as "oh-TILL-ee-ay" would be how I would say it as you mean it; the accent on the TILL softens the last syllable of ay. It's a bit of a strange sound to get across in English, I hadn't really thought of it before.
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So, we both meant the same ;-)
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