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Re: Dutch R

From:Boudewijn Rempt <boud@...>
Date:Friday, April 5, 2002, 9:25
On Friday 05 April 2002 08:14, you wrote:

> No offense meant, but I think that the [R] is in many > cases the result of a certain lazy carelessness, > characteristic for the pronunciation among mostly > younger Dutch people of their language.
Well, to atttribute language change to laziness and carelessness is a bit silly. Anyone's language is the product of that 'carelessness' and 'laziness' -- even your own pronounciation of 'ekwos' as 'paard' :-). -- Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.valdyas.org

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Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>