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Help[Facts] Re: German pronounciation question
in reply to a message by Anya Mel’nik or Mel’nyk
Anashtaziya would reveal a strong regional and dialectal background (Southwestern Germany, specially Schwaben), speaker of High German or other regional variants would not do this. In Standard German, st becomes sht only at the beginning of a word.
And there is a style by some speakers of High German (not me) to differentiate between native and foreign words by using either sht or st depending on the etymology. This leads to minimal pairs like Stiel /SHTEEL/ "trunk" and Stil /STEEL/ "style". It consider this as "showing off with learned etymological knowledge".
And there is a style by some speakers of High German (not me) to differentiate between native and foreign words by using either sht or st depending on the etymology. This leads to minimal pairs like Stiel /SHTEEL/ "trunk" and Stil /STEEL/ "style". It consider this as "showing off with learned etymological knowledge".
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