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Re: A prioi vs. A posteriori ?

From:Tim May <butsuri@...>
Date:Monday, February 3, 2003, 23:17
Christophe Grandsire wrote at 2003-02-03 23:16:50 (+0100)
 > En réponse à James Landau <Neurotico@...>:
 > > You mean, with the M at the beginning . . . and then the velar
 > > plosive?  I can see that.
 > >
 >
 > That's all there can be since Maggel's word for "tree" is |driuoj|
 > ['dryZ]. By the way, coming back to the original subject of the
 > thread, this word is inspired in some way by some natlang word
 > having a relationship with woods. Who will guess what I'm talking
 > about? ;)))))
 >

English "tree"?  It's not that far off... but then, as the word means
tree, you probably wouldn't have said "having a relationship with
woods".  But I don't want to avoid the obvious.

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Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...>