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From:  "Valerio Vanni" <valevanni@m...>
Date:  Thu Apr 13, 2000  2:39 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist-temporary] speaking of Italian diction - i and h


On Wed, 12 Apr 2000 14:17:05 Alain Z|rcher wrote:
>Valerio Vanni wrote :
>
>> On Mon, 10 Apr 2000 15:58:54 Alain Z|rcher wrote:
>>
>>>While we are at Italian diction, ther is another point that bothers me:
>>> the accent on final vowels such as in "perchi" or "perchh".
>>> First, I would assume that "i" should be sung closed and "h" open.
>>
>>That's right.
>
>Really? ;-)
>I wonder at which point my e-acute and my e-grave got translated into "i"
>and "h"! Majordomo had not this problem, or maybe you use something else
>than ISO Occidental Alphabet?

No, I use an Italian keyboard, the problem is on www.mailcity.com (they don't
support stressed vowels).


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