Re: Chinese Dialect Question

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Mark J. Reed wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:00:52PM -0400, Tristan McLeay wrote:
> > Oh, yes, but I didn't put it under the same category. I thought it was
> > generally actually articulated in the same place as an [s] (at least, it
> > never sounds exactly like [T]), and due to some problem in the mouth
> > rather than simply a lack of practice.
>
> Sometimes it's a physical problem - certainly that's the case with
> the kids I mentioned who require speech therapy - but it also
> manifests in kids while they're learning to speak.
Oh, I hadn't noticed.

> > That reminds me of my youngest brother learning to speak :) He'd talk of
> > amblelances (I think) and washing lions :)
>
> "Washing lions"?
Washing lines, those things you hang the washing on. (More specifically
hill's hoists, possibly, but only because that's the only kind of washing
line I'm familiar with.)

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Tristan                  <kesuari@...>

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