Re: CHAT: The [+foreign] attribute
From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
Date: | Thursday, September 12, 2002, 18:50 |
Christophe Grandsire scripsit:
> I did recognise it. And are there really people saying such things?
I cannot quite get my wife to say "prix fixe" correctly (and it's important,
because we eat in one French restaurant or another at least once a month or
so): she tends to get flustered and say [pRi'fi]. Americans don't learn
foreign languages, y'know.
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