Re: Phoneme winnowing continues
| From: | Joseph Fatula <fatula3@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 4, 2003, 8:25 |
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From: "Christophe Grandsire" <christophe.grandsire@...>
Subject: Re: Phoneme winnowing continues
> En réponse à Joseph Fatula :
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> >Still, if we're going to talk about Japanese, shouldn't they be
"moratachi"
> >or something like that?
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> No, since "mora" is a Latin word, not Japanese. What *is* the Japanese for
> "mora" anyway?
Sorry, I should have put a smiley at the end or something like that. As I
was responding to a message about the fact that "mora" is Latin, of course I
was aware of the fact that it shouldn't be "moratachi". Then again, even my
own family doesn't usually get my humor...
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