Re: Unilang: the Phonology

Tommie L Powell wrote:
> If saying an L one way makes it sound like an N to one listener
> and saying it another way makes it sound like a D to another,
> communication fails horribly.  -- Tommie
That's a good point ... I'm always mishearing the Japanese {r} as one
sound or another.  Often /n/ or /m/.  For the longest time I wondered
why what sounded like "Mei(chan)" was written "Rei" in the subtitles of
Sailor Moon.  :-)

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