Re: USAGE: pronunciation mimicry (was: rhotics)

This finally showed up, while I was composing the other letter.  Please
disregard and read my more recent letter which responds to the rest of J's
comments.  For some reason, it's taking almost twelve hours for my posts to
arrive in my mailspool.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sally Caves" <scaves@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 10:16 PM
Subject: Re: USAGE: pronunciation mimicry (was: rhotics)


> Oh, but it's not totally acquired!  Of the gifts of foreign language
> learning, I count a good mimicry of the sounds the easiest.  There is all
> the rest, of course.  The mastery of vocabulary, idiom, reading and
> writing
> knowledge, comprehension, and so forth and so on.  Actually, I wish it
> came
> more easily to me.  I have friends who can pick up a language in six
> months,
> and are babbling away cheerfully with thick accents.
>
> Sally
etc.