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Re: Tiki and French

From:Larry Sulky <larrysulky@...>
Date:Friday, April 14, 2006, 1:55
On 4/13/06, Herman Miller <hmiller@...> wrote:
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> > * Distinguish between pairs of words like "savoir" and "connaître" > (which isn't the best example since many other European languages > distinguish these, at least the ones I'm familiar with, although they're > both "to know" in English). (How does French express "to know how", by > the way?)
"savoir" ---SNIP---
> > Is there anything else that comes to mind? It's been 25 years since I > studied French in high school, so I don't remember much. >
I would say let French guide the grammar but be prepared to adopt a LOT of vocabulary from Japanese, whose phonotactics match Tiki's much better. ---larry