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

Quoth Jan van Steenbergen:

>> But you do have at lease one case of a word-initial /sts/: <Szene> "scene".
>> I also remember the Solidarnos'c' (Solidarity) protests in Poland circa 1981
>> (led by Lech Wal-e,sa, who would be President years later). Notice the final
>> -s'c'; /ctc/ with c-curls. That in additon to /StS/, /zdz/ with z-curls, but
>> no cases of /ZdZ/ unless I'm mistaken.
>
> I would have to check that. There is only one word I can think of right now:
> "droz.dz.e"
> Would geminates count as well? In that case we get: "ssak" (mammal), "ww-" (I
> can't think of a concrete example right now, but I know they exist). These are
> pronounced separately. Same thing with the name "Anna".
Ooh! Ooh! There's "jez.dz.e,"...oh, and speaking of weirdness, I ran into a
word in a book last weekend that began with "dz.dz." but I can't remember
what it was or what it meant. Jan?


Czesc,
    Josh

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Josh Brandt-Young <vionau@...>
This message written in incredibly misspelled Swahili.
Humor not necessarily funny.

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