Re: Alphabet
| From: | Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, November 3, 2001, 1:41 |
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At 06.49 p.m. 2.11.2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Two sources: p after _n_ or in geminates did not change, so pappyaku
>became happyaku (eight hundred).
How I wish I'd known that _before_ I gave up trying to learn it (I went out
the proper way, too. 'Watashi wa sakana desu'! (If you don't get it, watch
Red Dwarf)). I wish they'd teach the history of languages at the same time
as learning the actual one...
Tristan
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