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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