Re: OT: sorta OT: cases, please help...

From: "Tristan Alexander McLeay" <anstouh@...>
> On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Christopher B Wright wrote:
>
> > Someone mentioned "student" being in the instrumental case. Polish can do
> > what it wants to do as long as it doesn't do what English does, because
> > then it would (likely) be worse. (I don't like my native language; it has
> > something to do with that (C) (C) (C) (V) V (V) (C) (C) (C) syllabic
> > style and 20+ vowels represented by five or six overlapping symbols,
> > which caused me to limit my alphabets and syllabic styles considerably.)
>
> What word has VVV?
queue /kjuw/.  (Some may have [kju:], but it's not /kju/ in the same sense that,
say, you'd pronounce <quiu> in Spanish)

    *Muke!

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