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Re: Swedish Chinese

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Monday, February 2, 2004, 16:40
At 15:17 2.2.2004, Tristan McLeay wrote:
>On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Benct Philip Jonsson wrote: > > > At 11:44 2.2.2004, Tristan McLeay wrote: > > > > >It has been mentioned in jest that Swedish is really a dialect of Chinese > > >masquerading as a Germanic language... What is the basis for all of this? > > >I think one point was some dialects pronouncing /i/ as [z]..? > > > > That, and the lexical tones. > >That all? I feel let-down :( :) > > > NB that while in Chinese it is > > the syllable which carries the tone in SE/NO it is the lexical > > word. > >I'm not sure I understand this. I thought SE/NO had pitch accents?
As we say here, a dear child has many names.
> > BTW those very same dialects who have [z=] for long /i/ > > have [z_O=] for long /y/ and [z_w=] for long /8/! :) > >Is this kind of stupidity valid as an anadewism for any phonetic sound >change I can think of :)
Watchit! We are talking about my dad's native accent here!
> And Schwabacher capital H the orthographic >equivalent? (I can see how a H might become a zig-zag like that, but I >can't see how it'd catch on into a style of font.)
Ah, indeed. A bit like handwritten greek lowercase xi (as many zig-zags as you care to make on a squiggle of appropriate length, only it be more than one, lest it look like zeta.) /BP 8^) -- B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melrochX@melroch.se (delete X) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~__ A h-ammen ledin i phith! \ \ __ ____ ____ _____________ ____ __ __ __ / / \ \/___ \\__ \ /___ _____/\ \\__ \\ \ \ \\ \ / / / / / / / \ / /Melroch\ \_/ // / / // / / / / /___/ /_ / /\ \ / /'Aestan ~\_ // /__/ // /__/ / /_________//_/ \_\/ /Eowine __ / / \___/\_\\___/\_\ Gwaedhvenn Angeliniel\ \______/ /a/ /_h-adar Merthol naun ~~~~~~~~~Kuinondil~~~\________/~~\__/~~~Noolendur~~~~~~ || Lenda lenda pellalenda pellatellenda kuivie aiya! || "A coincidence, as we say in Middle-Earth" (JRR Tolkien)