Re: Swedish Chinese

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^)
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