Re: CHAT: Guessing games (was: Middle English question)
| From: | Tom Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, August 2, 1999, 12:00 |
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Josh Roth wrote:
> In a message dated 8/2/1999 2:07:33 AM, artabanos@MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU writes:
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> >Nik Taylor wrote:
> >
> >> Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
> >> > Heh. Have a go at my name, please (christian name and surname). I'd
> >> > love to see what people think I'm called.
> >> > Lars Mathiesen
> >>
> >> [lA(r)z 'mATis@n], [lA(r)z m@'Tis@n], or [lA(r)z 'mAT@s@n]?
> >
> >I don't think any of the Scandinavian languages have [T] anymore.
>
> Icelandic does, but I think that's about it.
Well, I was speaking of the geographical region that goes by that name,
not a language family (the proper name that encompasses Icelandic would
be North Germanic, I think).
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