Re: Rating Languages

Quoting David Peterson <DigitalScream@...>:

> In a message dated 9/26/2001 9:47:54 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> trwier@MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU writes:
>
> > I think you're overgeneralizing -- it really does depend on dialect,
> > as I said.  Irish, reportedly, doesn't have velar [L] at all.  In my
>
>      That's funny...  Irish, the language, DOES have velar [L] in
> syllable final positions--we were just showed that yesterday (no exaggeration)
> in my Phonology class.
Right -- I was talking about the set of English dialects
of that country with that collective name.

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