Re: Russian soft/hard 'l' minimal pairs (was: glottals)
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, February 1, 2004, 23:24 |
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Philippe Caquant wrote:
>
> OK, you mark the point for ugol vs ugol' (I made a
> counter-inquiry) :-) Nevertheless, it seems very hard
> to confuse them, one being concrete (coal) and the
> other abstract and locative (angle). Est' ugol' v uglu
> !
Sure. And very few r/l pairs in English could give rise to confusion,
except perhaps in jokes. That doesn't mean that a person learning
English whose native language lacks that distinction, shouldn't make an
effort to learn it.
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