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Re: Germans have no /w/, Marking of Resonants, racist use of RL languages in Star Wars movies

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Wednesday, June 9, 2004, 9:24
Quoting Emily Zilch <emily0@...>:

> Strangely, my roomie, who is a Deutscher, has no trouble with [D], [T] > or the other usual suspects such as [r\].
"Deutscher"? Is that meant to be the native ethnonym (in which case the lady in question might prefer to be refered as feminine _(eine) Deutsche_ rather than masculine _(ein) Deutscher_), or a hybrid of _deutsch_ plus English ending _-er_? Andreas

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Emily Zilch <emily0@...>Deutche... Gender-Switch in Israeli Hebrew et al.