Re: [tied] Stative/Perfect; Indo-European /r/

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From: "aquila_grande" <aquila_grande@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 2:28 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Stative/Perfect; Indo-European /r/


>
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "david_russell_watson"
> <liberty@...> wrote:
> >
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "aquila_grande"
> <aquila_grande@...>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > I need some advice: My son has got a girlfriend that uses UVULAR
> > > R. As a firm believer in the traditional apical trill, I find
> > > it mandatory to deuvularize her speach and hinder my comming
> > > grandchildren from picking up this uvular sound. Does anybody
> > > have any advice of what i can do?
> >
> > Mind your own business, if your son and girlfriend are 18+.
> > If that proves impossible to do, then instead make yourself
> > readily available for babysitting duty, and excercize your
> > influence on your grandchildren through example.
> >
> > David
>
> This was just a little joke. Also my remarks of the influence of the
> Inuits upon the Danes was ment as a joke, even though the Inuit
> language actually is heavily uvularized.

If you're seriously worried, you should by your son a house in a trill-r
area. The children tend to speak like their peers, not like their mothers
:-)

Mate