Re: conlan/natlang coincidences
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 18, 2003, 21:43 |
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Quoting Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>:
> En réponse à John Leland :
>
> >Korean "dung" has the same meaning as English. I don't believe it is a
> >loanword.
>
> But is it *pronounced* as in English? Depending on the transcription you're
> sing, it could well be pronounced [duN], which is not that close anymore to
> the English word.
Actually, that's reasonably close to a great many dialects in
Great Britain, where the vowel is less back, more like [U].
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