Re: English syllable structure

And:
> Anton:
> > And Rosta wrote:
> > > whereas Am E does them as /pAst@/ and /kowst@/, i.e. with Am E
> > > phonemes but Foreign phonotactics (alient for monomorphemic words).
> >
> > `alient', bwana?
>
> Typo for 'alien', I'm afraid. I checked my Latin dictionary for a
> verb _alire_, in the hope that I might accidentally have said something
> meaningful, but no luck.
LOL. Clearly my brain has become seriously _fornorsket_ from reading and
writing Norwegian so much. I subconsciously analysed it as the neuter (-t)
form of the adjective, and only saw it as a typo when I did a double-take.
Yikes.

Norwegian has even eaten Jameld - I often find myself unable to remember the
Jameld for <x>, because all I can think of is the Norwegian word. All this
and I'm still not fluent. Whinge whinge.

James

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