Re: THEORY: Sandhi

In a message dated 03.12.2001 01:47:28 PM, suchengzhong@YAHOO.COM.AU writes:

>Answer: It seemed no rules to apply the phonteic
>system for mandarin language, some one beleive there
>are, but when you find in fact all the 1200 different
>phonetic typse were separate individuals, you may
>understand they can combined each other without any
>limit.
    ::confused look on face... turns to Kou or someone for a translation::

    Just what linguistics book or books you basing your terminology and
numbers on???
    One small recommendation: get David Crystal's truly excellent _Cambridge
Encyclopedia of Language_ & pretty please stop embarassing yourself...

> In English artcle 'a' in front of a vowel has
>to be changed as 'an' but in mandarine, you don't need
>change any thing. As for hard to learn, it will depend
>on what we want. If we want knowing more in life time,
>we has to detect more information in every single oral
>actions.
    ::utterly confused by these references to "single oral actions", etc.::

> If we just want deal with everyday life, then
>the Phoenician language shall be the best choice, for
>it even regardless vowels.
    *snarfle* Just what in the _sacre Yves Klein Bleu_ heck ya yappin' about?
ROTFLMAOSHIH&ITIGPIP argh ouch...

 > In this issue, it may be
>no free lunch.
    ::mischievious Sun WuKong grinnage::
    ah, is this along the same wacky linguistics theory lines of "Language is
a virus" *  or sumt'ing?
        ::ROTFLMAO::  ack, me bleedin' ribs...

    * quoting William S. Burroughs, author of _Naked Lunch_

    czHANg, Current Incarnation of Sun WuKong (a.k.a. "Monkey")

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