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... Visit www.mngogate.com updated 1 Oct 2005, for new topic Sister Languages (in India) how they deal with English words. Langauge, Science, philosophy ...
DE (Doug wrote) I think u meen GA rimes 'ashore' with 'blower' (pronouced as 1 sillabl but with 'ow' sounded as in 'low / oh' -- thus /@Sor/ or /@Sour/. ...
This has been nominated for the best email of 2005. The following is a telephone exchange between a hotel guest and room service at a hotel in Asia,...
This has been nominated for the best email of 2005. The following is a telephone exchange between a hotel guest and room service at a hotel in Asia,...
Ov kaurs, if wee roet in LI wee kuud shoe th sily for'nrz hou it shuud bee spoekn. In Ethioepia, th weurd fr 'thank yoo' is Amesag'naloo. Yoo kan aulwaez ...
________________________________ Consonants Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz. Jakdauz luv mie big sfinx ov qaurts ... Hoo wuud noe aut ov aart m'st leurn,...
Deer Al.n and eny wun els hoo mae bee intrestid. We kount in 'Ar.bik' numbrz, but this iz a mis-naeming. Apaart from wun numbr, th siefrz wee uez aar Indiun....
Mr Rollo Reid, and Group Members, May I request you to see article E09 Global Numerals in my following website updated Oct 1, 2005. www.mngogate.com All...
... Unless you abandon use of '.' as a full-stop, it is ambiguous when it occurs at the end of a word, as in soef. (<sofa>). It also doesn't play well with...
We don't mispell schwa since English got it from German. http://www.etymonline.com/ schwa 1895, from Ger. Schwa, ult. from Heb. shewa "a neutral vowel...
Okae, Daevid, Al'n . forget it. Just an iediu. R ________________________________ From: saundspel@yahoogroups.com [mailto:saundspel@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf...
Martin, This story has been around for several years. Why would it be nominated for the best email of 2005? Part of the humor is in the attempt to write...
Rollo, See Madhukar's explanation. Arabs get high marks for transferring concepts to the West but the Indians get credit for inventing "arabic" numbers. sifr...
... SB: The schwapostrophe is a popular minimla mark for schwa. This might work a little better because the apostrophe is also used to show elision (a missing...
Hi Rollo, One of the things I appreciate about the Phondot system is its ability to show the schwa quality by an indication which can pertain to any vowel...
... trezhers. ... Spanglish: Wuns upon a taim, *the biutifal dawter uv a greit/grát majishan waantad/wontad mor purlz/perlz tu pwt amung hur trezherz. lwk...
I am new to this, so I may be way off base. I would not mind being ignored. It seems to me that a reform of spelling would have to either be done by...
... I don't agree there are that many sounds used by all speakers of English. The vowels in the words 'sun', 'her', 'for' and the schwa, sound the same to me....
... It looks like from what you say, having nothing for the schwa sound would be the correct way to go: bmblr, consnnt, implmntr - at least before l, m, n, and...
From: saundspel@yahoogroups.com [mailto:saundspel@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Gus Subject: Re: [saundspel] Re: Arabik Numbrz […] Looking at your site...
... On Behalf ... seems ... and 'ð' ... I should add that ðe or þe was a relative pronoun (like ModE who, which, that). OE had a variety of words for 'the'...
Steev I hav a huej Oxford Dikshnri. If i luuk up schwa, it saez: see sheva. If i luuk up sheva, it saez 'the hebrew weurd fr nuthing' and maeks a litl ...
Rollo, There's no error. German speaking phonologists say [Sva:] and English speaking phonologists say [SwA:]. I often heard it thus pronounced back in my...
Rollo, Indeed they are closely related. Hebrew and Arabic both belong to the Western branch of the Semitic language family which in turn is put into a loosely...
Dan Shuukran, Ara'bik, aur Amesag'naloo, az thae sae thanks in Amharik. Yoo hav choezn an intresting speshiality, bringing in t plae th hoel hist'ry ov...
George, Since few dictionaries represent more than one dialect, it would be quite a jump for one to represent all dialects of English for 70,000 words. I would...
