Re: making up words
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, March 20, 2002, 8:50 |
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En réponse à Peter Clark <pc451@...>:
> (I'm not quite as bad as, say, Georgian, however. Georgian is
> downright
> genocidal with its vowels. I mean, what language could be so cruel as
> to
> produce a word like "gvprckvnis"? I suppose the "v"s and "r"s are
> syllabic,
> but still...)
>
You suppose wrong! I've heard some recordings of a Georgian pronouncing various
words and sentences in Georgian, including this famous word, and his
pronunciation is quite clear: all consonants are pronounced, but none is
syllabic. It really sounds like a single syllable with only one peak at the 'i'.
Christophe.
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