Re: [embonpoint] was once a completely positive term in France

Aidan Kehoe wrote:

It took me, I think, a year, certainly many months, to get the alveolar trill
right. What worked for me was attempting to make a [h] at the same time as my
normal /r/ sound (while going on walks and in other contexts where no-one was
listening); this lowered the back of the tongue, which makes the anterior end
of the tongue more likely to trill, and eventually I could pronounce pero and
perro distinctly in Spanish without problems.

I have a problem with that. I have to produce a hurricane to get my
tongue to vibrate. My daughter can do it with as little air as she
likes.

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Bertel
Kolt, Denmark