Re: Chinese Dialect Question

Isidora Zamora scripsit:

> ROTFLOL.  That's wonderful!  Although it's a bit odd, because I've lived
> in the area, and the place is anything but cheap to live in :-)
"Cheap" in this case is the obsolete verb meaning "trade".

> How is [t_0_h] more fortis than it should be?  As far as I have been able
> to observe, Danish voiceless stops are supposed to be quite heavily
> aspiriated.  (It's also quite possible that I don't properly understand
> the meaning of the term "fortis.")
I don't think *anybody* really understands it, or at least nobody can
give a really intelligible explanation of it.   :-)
Maybe I misunderstood BP's notation.  [t] is already unvoiced, so
what is [t_0]?

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Only hungry: yes, we are hungry.  A few little fishes, nassty bony little
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