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Re: Phoneme winnowing continues

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Wednesday, June 4, 2003, 0:27
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 03:48:59PM -0700, Joseph Fatula wrote:
> Still, if we're going to talk about Japanese, shouldn't they be "moratachi" > or something like that?
Why? We're talking *about* Japanese, not *in* Japanese. The word "mora" is no more a Japanese word than "syllable" is; should we talk about "sirabirutachi" too? :) -Mark

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