Re: Estonian; Hungarian
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 30, 2003, 10:49 |
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Joseph Fatula wrote:
>
> From: "Ray Brown" <ray.brown@...>
> Subject: Re: Estonian; Hungarian
>
> > On Friday, November 28, 2003, at 12:49 AM, Robert Jung wrote:
> >
> > > Does Estonian have vowel harmony?
> > I haven't got definite info on that - but the examples I've seen seem to
> > suggest that
> > it hasn't.
>
> Am I the only one who had a hard time understanding this response? (And I
> do realize that the distinction is Transpondian.)
I had no problem. In fact, until you pointed it out, I didn't even
notice anything odd about it! Now that you have, I can see that it's
definitely odd from a standpoint of my dialect. But, the context makes
it quite clear that "hasn't" means "does not have [possess]".
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