Thursday, October 30, 2008

E-mail from a German.

A German graduate student I know is crashing at my house for a conference this weekend. I just got an e-mail from him including this line:

Just another quick question: should I bring any sheets/sleeping back?

I like how he was writing by ear - Germans devoice the end of words, so he probably does often pronounce "bag" like "back" since their pronunciation would collapse.

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