Re: CHAT: Blandness (was: Uusisuom's influences)
| From: | David Peterson <digitalscream@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 8, 2001, 7:45 |
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In a message dated 4/8/01 12:25:40 AM, fortytwo@GDN.NET writes:
<< That was Japanese, actually. Turkish *does* have /u/. But it *is*
unusual to have /M/ without /u/. Supposedly, /u/ became /M/ because it
was considered polite in the court to avoid lip-rounding. (Tho, why
that didn't also affect /o/, I don't know) >>
Wow! That's cool! ThoUGH, I did have a question: What's with the "tho"'s?
I was just wondering. Everyone seems to spell it that way on this list.
-David
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