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Re: alien xeno-anthropologists (was: Abkhaz)

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Thursday, August 5, 2004, 10:56
Philip Newton scripsit:

> What's 'svarabhakti'?
The same as 'epenthesis'; the addition of a vowel to ease the pronunciation of a difficult consonant cluster. Also known as "savarabhakati". :-) -- [W]hen I wrote it I was more than a little John Cowan febrile with foodpoisoning from an antique carrot jcowan@reutershealth.com that I foolishly ate out of an illjudged faith www.ccil.org/~cowan in the benignancy of vegetables. --And Rosta www.reutershealth.com

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