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Re:Hack your anatomy: How To Whistle Loudly by euccastro on Thursday October 02, 2008 @07:07PM (#322249)
Except there are no words in Spanish that end with a rolled r.
Re:Hack your anatomy: How To Whistle Loudly by maw on Thursday October 02, 2008 @10:13PM (#322363)
Not quite true. If a word ends in an r and the speaker is thinking about what to say next, he may in fact roll the r. Think about this sentence: "Estuvimos allí por... un rato." Often it'd be punctuated with ellipses, but in some sense it might be better written "Estuvimos allí porr un rato."
Re:Hack your anatomy: How To Whistle Loudly by euccastro on Wednesday October 08, 2008 @05:15PM (#327109)
I've heard quite my share of Spanish and never happened upon that. Rather, people would extend the r without rolling it.

And in any event, that wouldn't mean there are words in Spanish with rolled final r's, which is what was being discussed, just that people might pronounce a word that way.

Re:Hack your anatomy: How To Whistle Loudly by tordek on Sunday October 05, 2008 @01:40AM (#323907)
Argentinian here... and I'd usually extend the o, not the r, so "Estuvimos allí poor un rato."
Re:Hack your anatomy: How To Whistle Loudly by riahi on Thursday October 02, 2008 @11:06PM (#322380)
Also, a lot of native spanish speakers pronounce all initial r's as rolled r's.
Re:Hack your anatomy: How To Whistle Loudly by tordek on Sunday October 05, 2008 @01:42AM (#323912)
That's the way spanish is pronounced.

Radio is "Rradio".

I've found amusing how some people who learn english as a second language end up pronouncing spanish as "espanish", since no spanish word begis with s(consonant), except for sh.

Re:Hack your anatomy: How To Whistle Loudly by euccastro on Wednesday October 08, 2008 @06:15PM (#327168)
"A lot" meaning all of them, because that's the norm.
Re:Hack your anatomy: How To Whistle Loudly by akd on Friday October 03, 2008 @04:05AM (#322540)
nonsense.
Re:Hack your anatomy: How To Whistle Loudly by euccastro on Wednesday October 08, 2008 @05:08PM (#327099)
Cite one?