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Re: Chinese Dialect Question

From:Tristan McLeay <zsau@...>
Date:Saturday, October 4, 2003, 3:40
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.) -- Tristan <kesuari@...> Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement. -- Snoopy

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