Re: Never violate a universal unless it seems like a good idea atthe time
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 6, 2003, 18:00 |
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At 23:15 4.9.2003 -0400, Estel Telcontar wrote:
> --- Isidora Zamora wrote:
> > And I'll have to tell my husband all this about languages "violating"
> > universals. He's been laughing lately when I've talked about
> > "illegal consonant clusters." It put the image in his mind of the
> > language police coming out and arresting you or something for having
> > illegal consonant clusters :-)
>
>Beautiful!!!!! (I love this kind of buried pun!)
Sorry, this non-native speaker doesn't quite get it.
/BP 8^)
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