Re: *oy vey*
| From: | Dirk Elzinga <dirk_elzinga@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 9, 2002, 20:53 |
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At 2:26 PM +0200 04/09/02, Maarten van Beek wrote:
> > Van: Danny Wier
>>
>> >Nederlands/Dutch is essntiallij a Low Germanic language with
>> that funkij <
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>> Or better yet, _vunkij_ since Dutch voices initial fricatives.
>
>Wat een vlauwekul... I mean, flauwekul! Voiced and voiceless initial
>fricatives are phonemically distinct, as can be seen by looking at these
>minimal pairs in Dutch:
But not in all varieties. For instance, my mother doesn't voice
initial <v> or <z>. Of course she's from Amsterdam, so one wouldn't
expect it of her.
Dirk
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Dirk Elzinga Dirk_Elzinga@byu.edu
Man deth swa he byth thonne he mot swa he wile.
'A man does as he is when he can do what he wants.'
- Old English Proverb
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