Re: noun forms of verbs
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 18, 2001, 22:51 |
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Elliott Lash wrote:
>ugly words1?!?!?!? Indeed not! Although, I don't know how they're
pronounced, but the orthography is quite aesthetically pleasing...but of
course, I don't think Cellar Door is the be all and end all of beautiful
words, like someone we all know did.
Well, personal reaction I guess. The ny is palatalized [n], _a, i_
basically the IPA equivalents. I think there's maybe some ancient
phonaesthetics at work here; traditional Indonesian singing tends to be
rather nasal in quality; one might say, whiny (personal reaction again!).
Anyway, I shouldn't complain, because _ñ_ and _...ñi..._ are far more
frequent in Kash than in Indonesian.