Re: Article on Elvish, etc.
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 20, 2001, 3:38 |
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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"
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