Re: Love Those Double Vowels (was: Diving In...)
| From: | Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, November 6, 2001, 21:03 |
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> Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 12:27:10 -0700
> From: Dirk Elzinga <Dirk_Elzinga@...>
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> At 1:38 PM +0000 11/06/01, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
> >Does anyone know Estonian? I know there are overlong vowels in that
> >language, spelled with triple letters
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> I don't think that this is true. [...] vowels only show a two-way
> orthographical distinction:
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> sage 'frequent' [sake]
> saage 'get.2p.impf' [sa:ke]
> saage 'saws.part.pl' [sa::ke]
Thanks. Well, at least I was right about the phonetic three-way length
distinction.
Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)