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From:Aquamarine Demon <aquamarine_demon@...>
Date:Monday, March 11, 2002, 1:56
>>I remember the kids in Honduras saying "shu shu shu shu" to imitate the
sound of English, like American kids might do to Chinese, "ching chang chong." Is it because English has some sort of "hissing" quality that others pick up on but not native speakers? Clint<< Well... it could be that there are a lot of the "s" and "z" sounds. ===== The Aquamarine Demon "All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry." -Edgar Allan Poe "It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand." -Mark Twain __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/