Re: *gwistis

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Wordingham, Richard" <richard.wordingham@...>
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> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 7:24 PM
> Subject: RE: [tied] Re: *gwistis
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> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: alexmoeller@...
> [mailto:alexmoeller@...]
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> >
> > > [Moeller] /Z/ and (S) almost twins? Zalba= Salba, Zigodie=
> > > Sigodie, aSezare=aZesare, aStepta=aZtepta?be serious
> please..
> > > noone, even if drunk too much will not confunde them:-)
> >
> > Consider the twins Apollo and Artemis. In appropriate
> situations they could
> > replace one another, but no-one would confuse them either.
> >
> > Richard.
>
> [Moeller] for having an image of how possible is this
> replacement you have to think as fallow:
> you have the Romanian pe$te = fish and Romanian peste=over, or
> "on"
> Let us suppose one is Artemis and one Apollo. Do you guess
> they could replace each other?

The 'twins' are /S/ and /Z/, spelt <$> and <j> in Romanian, <ch> and <j> in
French, and <s> and <zs> in Hungarian. Why are you asking me to compare
Apollo and Demeter? Mind you, having said that, can you distinguish 'pe$te'
and 'peste' when drunk? The loss of that distinction _is_ a stereotypical
sign of drunkenness in Englishmen.

Richard..



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