Re: Translation: Trolls and their Management
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 18, 2004, 16:59 |
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At 16:01 18.1.2004, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> >
> > The spelling _Trållen_ looks quite funny. Although
> > "Standard Swedish" has /o:/ for _o_ in _troll_
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>You mean short /o/, don't you?
<<Bangs head on screen>>
Of course I did!
>Quite apart from your usual hesitancy to afford
>phonemic status to vowel length, the vowel certainly is short ([O], normally),
Yes, except that there is no quality difference
between most long/short pairs in my lect
(altho Standard [I] often corresponds to short
/e/ in my lect).
>and whichever way you phonematicize the difference it's a minimal pair with
>_trål_ [tro:l].
Indeed. I don't know what I was thinking of.
/BP 8^)
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