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Re: Moraic codas [was Re: 'Yemls Morphology]

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 17, 2001, 4:20
And Rosta wrote:
(replying to my--
>> I'm still stuck with midwestern/Germanic/Scandinavian [ja:] "yah"-- > >Is that the one they use in the film _Fargo_ all the time?
Definitely. Though to be accurate, I think "Fargo" emphasized our upper-midwest accent just a bit much, almost to the point of caricature. As I watched the movie, I kept wanting to say, "Oh, stop it!" Still, both Fargo and my birthplace, though 3-400 miles apart, are smack-dab on the Minnesota border, a veritable hotbed of Scandanavianism.

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And Rosta <a.rosta@...>[CONLANG] Moraic codas [was Re: 'Yemls Morphology]