Re: Futurese

On Monday 06 May 2002 19:49, Michael Poxon wrote:

> I think I'd have a hard time carrying on a conversation in Georgian,
> Chinese or Zuni. Would they then consider me to be abnormal or to
> have articulatory problems?
They'd probably consider you a foreigner.

Now if you *could* carry on a conversation, but had trouble pronouncing
certain sounds of the language, *then* they would consider you to have
articulatory problems. I have a speech defect (though one that's
generally considered "cute") in Romanian: I can't for the life of me
say the apico-alveolar trill [r].

   Irina

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