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Re: glottals

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 28, 2004, 15:34
Quoting Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...>:

> But In Russian, it seems that it won't be of any help > to distinguish between hard-L and soft-l, this will > never allow you to make a distinction between two > different words. (So why losing one's time, except in > case of a spy trying to make people think he is > Russian while he's not).
One might simply _like_ having a decent accent, or not remind everyone you're foreign as soon as you open your mouth. Or, more relevantly wrt to some langs that to some others, avoid the prejudices against people with non-standard pronunciation. Andreas