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Re: tlhn'ks't, ngghlyam'ft, and other scary words

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Thursday, February 6, 2003, 21:25
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 18:47:11 +0000 Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
writes:
> >I'd analyze that as [maj.ja] with a geminate /j/, which would > >strongly suggest it's a consonant, right?
> I doesn't sound geminate to me ... but I'm not having a spectrograph > at hand to make checks.
> Andreas
- Maybe it's 'ambisyllabic', or whatever the |pp| in English "happy" is called. -Stephen (Steg) "i see wry beauty in guile. represent, like, our vapid mind and lapse only on clever nefarious woman." ~ refrigerator-magnet poem

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