Odd Amy-isms

Amy’s observations about how something looks sound a bit odd—she’ll say things such as „Sieht so wie aus ein Turm!“ and „Witzig aus!“. (Proper German would be „Sieht (so) aus wie ein Turm!“ and „Sieht witzig aus!“, respectively, I’d say.)

I’ve no idea how she analyses the construction aussehen wie X. I don’t think it’s influence from English this time, though.

Amy and the /uː/

I’ve occasionally noticed that my /uː/ in English is not [uː] but something further forward, perhaps [ʉː].

Recently, I’ve noticed that Amy’s realisation of that phoneme seems to be even further forward. At first, I thought she had merged it into [yː] from German /y/, but I think it’s not quite that far forward.

Still, hearing her pronounce, say, spoon as [sʉ̟ːn] sounds odd to me. Perhaps it's just that she's get a “real” [ʉː] while I’ve merely got a [u̟ː] or whatever. At any rate, it reinforces the fact that my /u/ is not an [u].