Re: palindrome to pluralize
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 16:34 |
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On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Veoler <veoler@...> wrote:
> And phonetic palindromes are yet different from phonemic palindromes.
> That got me thinking about the episode Backwards in Red Dwarf, where the
> reverse of "bitter" isn't "rettib" but rather "eskib".
Where "eskib" is pronounced /@'skIb/, I assume. But that doesn't
yield "bitter" for us rhotic types. :)
There are several YouTube videos of people singing a song backwards
and then reversing the stream so you can hear what they're doing...
but I don't think actual phonetic reversal at that level of detail is
likely to show up as a linguistic feature.
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
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