Re: sound changes (was Conlangea Dreaming)

Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
>
> On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
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> Sometimes I really wonder if the language that I learn in the classroom
> is going to be any good for communication with Real People who are L1
> speakers of that language.
I've found from my German & French Education that it really doesn't - I
may know the Vocab & the Grammar, but when it comes out of Someone's
Mouth, I just get lost. It's not as perfectly structured as the
Sound-Bites we're fed in School, and Real Germans and Real Frenchmen
speak far too fast for me to understand them.

--
Robert