> no guilty, Your Honour!
> my g/f is specializing in teaching languages to "difficult"--yet not
> disabled--children. me to her: "i've got this cool phonology i think most
> people can pronounce and differentiate". her: "[nj]? that's definitely not
> easy to pronounce for americans." me: "yeah but it's never
> initial---(grumble)". i was disappointed but happy to learn something.
she's
> "trilingual"(?) with hebrew, american english and spanish so it's
difficult
> for me to argue with her this kind of stuff. as we say in french: "you
> always find your master eventually." but now that you native tell me i was
> right, so i agree with you a 100%!
>
> BTW please take my posts on IALs with a truck of salt. the best IAL
> phonology is whatever you can sell out to customers. i like minimalistic
> phonology and grammar for completely irrational, aesthemaniac reasons ;
and
> since i love arguing in bad faith...
>
Americans can't pronounce /nj/?
odd...I use it every other sentence :-) But I'm in England...