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Re: An arabo-romance conlang?

From:Eric Christopherson <raccoon@...>
Date:Friday, February 16, 2001, 21:53
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 03:31:37PM -0800, Barry Garcia wrote:
> I had a Spanish professor a couple of semesters ago who had the harshest > /x/ sound i had heard. Everyone in class would always imitate him when we > repeated words he was teaching us with that sound. At first it got a lot > of smiles when we all first heard it. > > For me oldhabits die hard, so i always pronounce my j's and g's before i > or e as /h/ as all of my other Spanish professors do (they were mostly > Mexican, or Central American)
I can't seem to break myself of pronouncing /xi/ and /xe/ as [Ci] and [Ce], even though I don't think that's generally a tendency with native speakers. -- Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo Conlang code: CU !lh:m cN:R:S:G a+ y n2d:1d !R* A-- E L* N1 Id:m k- ia- p+ m- o+ P-- d* b+++ lainesco

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