[Info-vax] fortran compiler roadmap?

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <nospam-051FFB.16182218042013 at news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture
<nospam at sture.ch> writes: 

> > In most dialects of German, and in "standard German", s before p or t at 
> > the beginning of a syllable is pronounced sh.  Thus, names like 
> > Sternberg get translated into Russian with the Cyrillic letter with the 
> > sh sound, then this gets transliterated into English as sh.
> >
> > (In much of northern Germany, s is never pronounced sh; in parts of 
> > southern Germany, it always is before p or t, even when not at the 
> > beginning of a syllable.)
> 
> Interesting thanks.  I wasn't aware of the rule.  If I wasn't taught it, 
> I must have picked it up subconsciously, probably during my school 
> exchange with a Bavarian family (close to Kaufbeuren, which at one time 
> had a DEC factory).
> 
> Since my school German teacher was Austrian, which flavour was he likely 
> to have taught us?

In this respect, standard German, i.e. sh before p and t at the 
beginning of a syllable.  Many Austrians pronounce s as s at the 
beginning of a syllable when followed by a vowel, but in "standard 
German" it is pronounced as z.  Also, ei, ai, ey, ay are more like a 
long English a whereas in standard German more like a long English i.