Re: I'm back, sort of
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 26, 2003, 4:13 |
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John Cowan wrote:
>
> 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.
No, no, it's not the life -> raifu that surprised me. Raifu is
perfectly normal as an adaptation of "life", but it's the fact that it
was adapted at all that's depressing. :-)
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