Re: [T] -> [f] (was: Chinese Dialect Question)
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 7, 2003, 15:42 |
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On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 10:55:07AM -0400, Tristan McLeay wrote:
> > But what do you mean by "an English Koine"? I thought Koine was
> > Greek.
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> Must a 'lingua franca' be French?
Indeed not, but I'd not heard the term Koine used to mean a lingua franca
before, although I inferred something like that from context. I only
knew the name "Koine" as a specific dialect of Greek.
-Mark