Re: NATLANG/Learning : Sanskrit
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, August 15, 2003, 8:36 |
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At 11:50 13.8.2003 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
>Muke Tever scripsit:
>
> > It might just be easier to borrow 'zi4' entirely for the whole type and
> have
> > done with it.
>
>Not so good for North Americans:
>
>A: Hmm, you seem to be missing a zi4 there.
>
>B: Okay. (types "z")
>
>(Yeah, I know, it's [dz:], not [zi], but I couldn't resist.)
The Japanese version wouldn't fare much better!
Classical Japanese is essentially Classical Chinese with zi4 ("z")
pronounced as ji ("g").
/BP 8^)
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