Re: Ergativity/Apologies

Quoting Chris Bates <christopher.bates@...>:

> I apologize too if I misunderstood anybody or came across badly.. I
> don't apologize that I might be wrong because if I did that I'd never
> stop apologizing. ;) I've always been the kind of person who would argue
> something to the bitter end lol, and it tends to annoy people. So I
> thought we might as well stop arguing since I wasn't going anywhere and
> neither was the rest of the world lol.. we weren't persuading each
> other. I'd be happy to hear another explanation of what finnish.. was it
> finnish? does though... I've always thought that finnish or maybe
> swedish would be an interesting language to learn, although of course
> I'd still have the problem that I can't get the rs right (same problem
> in spanish :( )... finnish has an alveolar trilled r doesn't it? Is an
> uvular r an acceptable substitute or does it make you sound wrong?
As far as Swedish is concerned, uvular R is used by large numbers of native
speakers. If you can supply any sort of voiced alveolar, retroflex or uvular
trill or approximant, you should be pretty OK.

                                                         Andreas