Re: CHAT: English is SO HARD, even the English can't speak it
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 5, 2007, 13:52 |
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On 7/5/07, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
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> Quoting "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>:
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> > With regard to childhood malaprops, "pasketti" for "spaghetti" seems
> > to be quite common round these parts.
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> I've heard "skapetti" from more than one Swedish child (or "sgapetti" -
> there is
> no /k/~/g/ distinction after /s/).
>
Interesting. Same cluster substitution, but without the transposition.
Wonder what motivates the difference?
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>