Re: Woody or tinny?

Oskar Gudlaugsson wrote:
> I generally speak rhotic, which is why "word order"
> causes me problems - how do other rhotic speakers feel about that one?
Never really thought about it.  I actually kind of like the sound of it.

> As for "genre", I hate it because a) it's one of the few, if not the only,
> word with an initial /Z/, and b) because it has an /nr/ combination
I like /Z/, and /nr/ has kind of a nice sound to it, I think.  There are
several words in Uatakassí with [nr] (phonemically /nl/), like _nlakús_
(man)

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