Re: |r|, |rr| and other Rs. :)
| From: | Chris Bates <chris.maths_student@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 4, 2004, 6:02 |
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No I didn't see the news this weekend because I was working for most of
it and tired for the rest. As a matter of fact I'm very interested in
current events when I have the time and energy to watch the news... but
the weekend is never one of those times.
BTW, I was under the impression that the variation in spoken Arabic is
so great that some of the dialects are pretty much mutually
unintelligable and probably more like separate languages. Is this true?
And is there any variation in the pronounciation of r or is it the same
in every dialect?
>On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 10:55:18PM +0100, Chris Bates wrote:
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>>What language is Samarra in?
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>Don't keep up with current events much, eh? Samarra is in Iraq;
>US-led coalition forces recaptured it this weekend. Therefore the
>language is presumably Arabic.
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>Rodlox: I don't know what the Arabic rhotic sound is, but if the news
>reports you're watching are in any language *other* than Arabic, the
>anchor person almost certainly mispronounced the name. :)
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>-Marcos
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