Re: Borrowing a word

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