Re: CHAT: Goethe (was: Roumant)
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, November 28, 2000, 0:14 |
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On Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:04:06 -0500 "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...>
writes:
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 11:34:14AM -0500, Steg Belsky wrote:
> [snip]
> > Wow, that's one of my brother's most hated consonants too.
> > He calls it "that damn Chinese {X} sound" because of a Berlitz
> book we
> > found at a friend's house once.
> What sound is that? I don't remember Chinese has any [X] sound? :-)
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No, not [X] in brackets, {X} in braces....orthography...
The berlitz book described the sound written in Pinyin as "X" the way
that the sound [C] has been described to me, so they seem to be the same.
-Stephen (Steg)
"dum dum diggy diggy dum dum..."