Re: phonology of borrowed words
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 21, 2002, 7:09 |
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Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> Borrowing is a complex feature, as much linguistic as it is social,
> so purely phonetic considerations cannot always explain why some word
> is borrowed in some way or another.
Sometimes I think that borrowings are deliberately distorted. :-)
Like, I heard my grandfather pronounce "harakiri" like "Harry Karry"
(something like /hIrikIri/), which seems to me to be far more distorted
than can be explained by simply English phonology. :-)
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