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Re: USAGE: syllables

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Friday, June 13, 2003, 10:41
Quoting John Cowan <jcowan@...>:

> Andreas Johansson scripsit: > > > Rules wouldn't be any fun if there weren't exceptions. Could this be > taken as > > evidence in favour of the idea that Germanic [sp-], [st-] and [sk-] > are > > monophonemic? > > In that light, it's interesting that in OE and ON (but not Old Saxon) > alliterative verse, each of these alliterated only with itself and not > with other words in s-.
Frikken Saxon deviants! ;-) I was told this was universal in Germanic alliterative verse. Well, see my first sentence in the bit John quoted above. Conscripty idea; in some alternative time-line, whomever creates the first Germanic orthography do take these as monophonemic, and write them with single letters. When *sk- goes haywire in West Germanic, we'll have decent representation of /S/!
> In Goedelic these also exist and have a > special > status as the only full consonant clusters with no epenthetic schwas, > AFAIK. > > -- > The Imperials are decadent, 300 pound John Cowan > <jcowan@...> > free-range chickens (except they have http://www.reutershealth.com > teeth, arms instead of wings and http://www.ccil.org/~cowan > dinosaurlike tails). --Elyse Grasso
Sounds these folks could easier be described as resembling chubby carnosaurs? Or do they come complete with fuzzy chickenish yellow down? Andreas

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