Re: The irredentist Hooo
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 5, 2003, 21:13 |
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J?rg Rhiemeier scripsit:
> First of all, we have no evidence for quadruple-length vowels,
> only triple-length ones,
Well, perhaps "Hoooo" is just the ASCIIfication of "Hóó", where the
acute represents high tone or something.
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John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
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Does anybody want any jetsam? / I can getsam.
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