Re: CHAT: Phonemic status of English interdentals
From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, October 9, 2002, 10:30 |
Pavel Iosad scripsit:
> Not unlike Moliere's Jourdin, heh :-)
Well, if he was amazed, it was because he was being bamboozled:
nobody speaks *prose*, unless by prose we mean merely not-verse.
"Speaking like a book" is derogatory precisely because people don't
actually talk that way.
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