Re: [tied] Re: the bee

On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 21:09:22 +0200, alex_lycos <altamix@...>
wrote:

>I guess you missunderstood my question.
>I have a mexican colegue and I aksed how it is spoken "Sevilla". The
>answer
>was : "seviia". This is why I asked Miguel how many syllables are in
>Sevilla. The palatal "l" is kind of "i", so there should be se-vi-i-a, 4
>syllables.

Which only shows how bad an ear you have language. Whether it's
Mexican Spanish [seBíja] or Castilian Spanish [s'eBíl^a], there are
always 3 syllables in the word.


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