Re: Article on Elvish, etc.
From: | D Tse <exponent@...> |
Date: | Friday, April 20, 2001, 5:39 |
>
> Marcus Smith wrote:
> > [L] is a lateral fricative. Now, I'm quite good at making lateral
> > fricatives, but I never would have imagined someone spelling
> them <schl>.
>
> Well, [L] does sound like a hybrid of /S/ and /l/, so presumably, he
> heard it as /Sl/, but {schl} is still an odd way of writing /Sl/, if I
> heard a /Sl/, I'd've transcribed it "shl"
>
They say that Welsh "pwll" sounds like someone trying to say "push" and
"pull" at the same time...
Imperative