Re: Tech: One, two, three, four, five consonant words

----- Original Message -----
From: "Elliott Lash" <AL260@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 4:30 PM
Subject: Re: Tech: One, two, three, four, five consonant words


| In my own odd idiolect of english (only when I'm talking to closely related
people, or my best friends), all s's before stops become f's
|
| so I say:  ftop rather than stop
|            ftring rather than string
| and I can't remember anything else, but there's more!

I hear "hmoke" for "smoke" and "hleep" for "sleep", indicating an s>h shift
which isn't uncommon of course, but preaspirated consonants aren't a distinctive
feature in English.  Hmong maybe, but not English.

~DaW~




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