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Marie-Pierre Duclos (duclos) wrote,
@ 2008-01-22 13:25:00

ooc and bored bored bored

Duclos is pronounced doo-CLO.
Mireille is mere-AYE. Somewhere between the a in May and the i in Sigh, but closer to ay.
Stephane is of course ste-FAHN.
Bertrat is bear-TRAH.
Final consonants in French are generally not sounded unless they are followed by an e. (Or, in some dialects, if the next word in the sentence starts with a vowel, in which case they will elide - I had a Parisian instructor who did this. "Duclos était" would normally be "du-CLO ay-TAY," but she would turn it into "du-CLO zay-TAY."
é = ay, è = eh. (may/send)
-ez as a verb ending is also ay
Diacritical marks are important! I assume Dr Michaud-Carre is Michaud-Carré, in which case it's mee-SHOW cah-RAY, but if there's really no accent on there it's mee-SHOW CAR.
th is usually pronounced as a hard t. Théatre = tay-OTT-r'. I can't think of any exceptions to this right now. That's why Frenchmen in English usually talk like zis - they lack the phoneme in their native tongue.
need to know how to say something i will try to transliterate based on an American Standard accent

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	paperlucy 2008-01-22 11:05 pm UTC (link)
	Oh French.. how do I love thee? Let me count the ways.. I remember taking French. It always sounded so good in my head, I knew all the rules of pronunciation, and then I opened my mouth and garbage came out. Bahaha. (Reply to this) (Thread)

duclos
2008-01-22 11:40 pm UTC (link)

I speak it like Elmer Fudd - simply canNOT manage that oddly-aspirated R, on account of no early training in it. But other than that, I can pronounce it pretty well; I learned that long before I learned to understand the bloody language. My first French instructor thought I knew a lot more than I did because when called upon to read aloud I could trot along merrily at a nice conversational pace - little realizing that I was essentially just sight-reading with no idea what I was saying.

Incidentally, if Marie-Pierre ever has occasion to spak with Lucy in her own language, I have every intention of writing out his accent, because I'm silly like that. Fair warning!

('e drops 'is aitches and does zat thing wi' ze bad hard-TH, no?)

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	paperlucy 2008-01-22 11:55 pm UTC (link)
	Haha, I used to play Fleur Delacour in a Harry Potter game and did that, so hopefully I can follow along. I like to drop some of Lucy's H as well, especially with "here": Right 'ere, 'ere you are, etc etc. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	duclos 2008-01-23 12:02 am UTC (link)
	East Ender, yeah? (Reply to this) (Parent)