Re: I'm back, sort of
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 26, 2003, 3:07 |
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Nik Taylor scripsit:
> (like, when I saw _kyanpasu raifu_ - campus
> life - on the Osaka U. web page - kyanpasu I can understand, but
> _raifu_?!)
Why not? "r" is [4], but is also used for foreign /l/ morphemes;
the final /u/ gets devoiced, so it can be added to foreign final
consonants.
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John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan
Original line from _The Warrior's Apprentice_ by Lois McMaster Bujold:
"Only on Barrayar would pulling a loaded needler start a stampede toward one."
English-to-Russian-to-English mangling thereof: "Only on Barrayar you risk to
lose support instead of finding it when you threat with the charged weapon."
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