Re: Personal langs and converse of aux

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>On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 01:28:56AM -0500, Roger Mills wrote:
>[snip]
> > My bugaboos:  uvular trill, and tones.
>
>Mine: any kind of trill, except bilabial; and long consonant clusters (I
>don't think I'll ever go near Georgian :-P). Tones are no problem for me,
>but I have "unfair" advantage 'cos I know two tonal languages. Non-Sinitic
>tones may be difficult for me, though; but I haven't attempted to learn
>any of those langs yet (eg., Vietnamese).
>
>
>T
I'm totally lost on tones. I also have problem with nasal vowels (sorry you
French folks but words like "Enghien" are unpronounceable!).

I'm pretty good at long clusters I think, but that's because nice Swedish
forms like _spotskt_ and _Ernsts_ ([E:n`s`t`s`] where the "`"s mark
retroflex consonants).

                                           Andreas
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