John wrote :
Mathias M. Lassailly scripsit:
>
> > > I judge from [the word "barangs"] that Khmer lacks [f]?
> >
> > Lacks ? No way : Lao-Thai has one consonant in excess... :-)
>
> Well, since you frogs call yourselves "fran=E7ais" and not "pran=E7ais",
> we can readily suppose that it is indeed a case of [f] being
> missing from Khmer.
>
Why that ? *barang* comes from *Belgian* as everybody knows. And I tell you what :
I don't like f's. No single conlang of mine never ever featured the smallest
hint of an f. f is vile and gross. f stinks. down with f. bilabial F excepted
when in front of *u* and *a* OK. And frogs are delicious. And snails too. But I
can't see the point with Belgium.
Mathias
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