Re: Odd construct
| From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 15, 2001, 17:16 |
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laokou wrote:
>From: "daniel andreasson"
>
> > > How 'bout "Slå barnet" becoming "Slå re" or Andreas' "Slå't"? Kids
> > > are animate :)
>
> > You right. :) Although I wouldn't refer to the kid as "it" if
> > I thought of hitting it, but rather "he" or "she".
>
>True 'nough. How about "spädbarnet", then? I would use "it" in English if
>the gender was undetermined. Though instead of "slå", let's try "kväv" :) :
>
>Kväv re!
>Kväv'et! (Kväv't? a little consonant heavy, but hey, these are the folks
>that brought you "västkustskt" :) )
_Kväv't_ 'd be grammatical for me, but I'd avoid it since it'd coincide with
_kvävt_ [kvE:vt] (past participle) ...
Andreas
PS, were we to adopt really strict IPAification, it should perhaps be
[k_hv_0E:v_0t_d_h]. X-SAMPA does have the potential to get totally
unreadable ... [t_d_h] for a simple voiceless aspirated dental stop!
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