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Re: A small taste

From:H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...>
Date:Tuesday, November 5, 2002, 20:24
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 08:17:23PM -0800, Barry Garcia wrote:
[snip]
> Remember kids, between two vowels exists an obligatory glottal stop
[...]
> As always, c = /tS/
Mmmm, just like Ebisedian, on both counts. :-P Favorite Ebisedian lookalike: Kruu's ["k_hr`u:s] - incidental perfective of _Kr0's_, "to arrange", "to write" Kru-u's [k_hru"?us] - deliberative perfective of _Kr0's_. The deliberative emphasizes that the action happened for a purpose, meaningfully; whereas the incidental indicates it's just an ordinary, casual event. [Of course, in the enhanced LaTeX orthography, these two words aren't quite lookalikes.] T -- It's amazing how careful choice of punctuation can leave you hanging: