Re: Phoneme winnowing continues

From: "Tristan McLeay" <kesuari@...>
Subject: Re: Phoneme winnowing continues


> >>Not two syllables: two morae.
> >Since when did Japanese become Latin?
> >I didn't think Japanese had a plural in -ae,
> >or a plural suffix at all for that matter.
> >
> mo·ra
> n. pl. mo·rae  or mo·ras
>
>     The minimal unit of metrical time in quantitative verse, equal to
>     the short syllable.
>
> [Latin, pause.]
Still, if we're going to talk about Japanese, shouldn't they be "moratachi"
or something like that?

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