Re: CHAT: feckly off-topic (was: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation)

Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> I think the reputation of Arabic (and German and Dutch - and I suppose
> since I made the correct pronounciation of Charya public, Denden too)
> is just due to the prejudice most speakers of English have against anyt=
hing
> fricative spoken at the back of the mouth - German and Dutch _g_ and _c=
h_,
> and Arabic _h_ You'll soon hear complaints of 'gutturals' - I'm
> personally very fond of uvular fricatives
Well, it's strange, I'm usually not partial to them either, but there's
something about Arabic that seems to compensate for those sounds.  In
fact, there doesn't seem to be that many, at least in the Arabic of Ziad
and Rania (my Lebanese-American next-door neighbors).  I think it's the
intonation patterns that appeal to me.

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