Re: I have a dream

Jan van Steenbergen sekalge:
>Are you sure you haven't been to the Netherlands lately? Because that's
exactly
>what the Dutch do with final [e]: they add an ugly [j] sound.
I definitely haven't been there in the last ten years. I probably haven't
been there ever. However, anglophones do as the Dutch do. Have you
forgotten? English is essentially Dutch with all the vowels halved.

I am appalled at some people's pronunciation of foreign words. [kiaZ] for
[keage] (or, at worst, [kiage]) is one of the worst offenders. Either I'm
right and they are wrong, or Japanese has developed severe eccentricities
(or removed them recently, and the people I know are speaking an old
variant, which they are, properly, which they probably are not).

>Laimes,
>Jan
Why are you using a Sturnan word? Why aren't you using a Hattic or Askaic
word for this? Have you not made salutations for them? Or could you just
not decide which to use?

I had to read through the message about three times before noticing that
it was a Sturnan word.

Laimes,
Wright.

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