Re: Digest 2 Apr
| From: | Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 3, 2001, 23:37 |
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On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Aidan Grey wrote:
> > Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> > > That reminds me--how/why, insofar as the question
> > is answerable, did
> > > Latin v [w] go to v [v] in the Romance languages
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> /w/ is a bilabial fricative, of sorts, just bring
> the libs closer and closer together and you'll get a
> sound more and more /v/-like. Fairly simple, I think.
Oh! <slapping self on head> And I *knew* about the Japanese "f" (and
that you could voice it for a what-do-you-call-it that's close to a
[v]). Thanks.
YHL
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