Re: Marked and Unmarked
| From: | Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 9, 2001, 12:26 |
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Hi!
Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> writes:
> On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, John Cowan wrote:
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> > Yoon Ha Lee scripsit:
> >
> > > Er...BTW...what's a Sprachbund? Sort of a linguistic isocline?
Ah, BTW, how do you English speakers pronounce that? In German it's
[SpRa:xbUnt], but I suspect it's shifted a bit in English?
Maybe you say [spra:kband]? :-)
> OTOH when I first saw the
> German term "Ratshaus" I thought it might mean "mousehole" until my
> boyfriend corrected me...<slinking away now>
:-)
Well, not too far away, stem `rat' exists: `Rattenhaus' would be
`rat's house', but `Rathaus' is something different. :-)
**Henrik
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