Re: water (was:re:sounds like...)
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 22, 1998, 4:53 |
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On Thu, 19 Nov 1998 12:53:40 +0100, lucasso <lucasso@...> =
wrote:
>mia wrote that english 'water' isn't good word for water, becouse of
>sounds...
>
>so how should water sonds like?
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>i was thinking about 'low' (just like english 'low')..
>('luw' ?[lu:] when stressed)
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>is it water enough? :)
Actually, I think "aqua" is a pretty good word for "water". Better than
many of my own words for "water" (Olaetyan "itrya", Alzetjan "djelna",
Cispa "tipsic", Jarrda "pean", etc.)
I really don't have any idea why words like "aqua" and "shui" sound more
watery to me than, say, "tubig" or "hudor", but they do.