Re: Sound changes

Hello,

Kou:
> >>What about having 7 tones? :-P
> >
> >As said, I'm practically tone-deaf, and so two, seven or
> eighty-five tones
> >make little difference to me.
>
> Dude, aren't you Swedish? You can't distinguish between "anden", "the
> soul", and "anden", "the wild duck"? We've dipped our toe into this
> water before, but I believe one can speak fluent Chinese (pick a
> dialect, any dialect) and still mortify people at the karaoké bar.
Yep. Almost my case. I can't sing at all, no not at all, but I don't
have a problem with neither speaking nor listening to Putonghua Chinese
(pending my knowledge of the grammar and lexicon:-)), and no, not only
on tapes :-)

> Tone-deafness, in my humble opinion which is my own, is not really an
> issue here.
Second.

Pavel
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Pavel Iosad               pavel_iosad@mail.ru

Is mall a mharcaicheas am fear a bheachdaicheas
                 --Scottish proverb

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