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Re: Borrowing a word

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Thursday, August 21, 2003, 16:49
Quoting Pavel Iosad <edricson@...>:

> Hello, > > > That aside, [f] and [x] are supposed to be quite similar > > accoustically (I > > guess my brain's damaged for having those both phonemic in my > > native language - they sound perfectly different to me). > > But if you look at a spectrogram, they only differ in that [x] has a bit > more noise around where the neighbouring vowels have the formants, and > very slightly in the overall amount of energy.
Well, it wasn't _me_ who designed the human brain. I'm not saying it was poorly done, but simplicity cannot have been the guiding principle! Andreas