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Re: Alphabet

From:Andrew Chaney <adchaney@...>
Date:Friday, November 2, 2001, 17:28
on 02/11/01 02:06, Christophe Grandsire (christophe.grandsire@FREE.FR)
wrote:

>> Why do people often think of the voiceless sounds as "hard" and the >> voiced ones as "soft"? I've always thought of it the other way >> around. >> > > Your thinking is somehow twisted then.
My thinking must be twisted too. I've always felt the same way. A voiced sound sounds harder to me than a voiceless sound. andy. adchaney@louisiana.edu omnia mihi lingua graeca sunt