Re: PIE *a -- a preliminary checklist

They've figured it out, but they're just 30 years
behind --e.g. Maná is basically a cover band for Sting
and light Led Zep and others do late 70s style heavy
metal. What truly sucks is their rap and reguetón
--imitation of early 80s rap and late 60s Dub Reggae.

--- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister
> <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
> >
> > Compared to (most forms of) Spanish, I definitely
> hear
> > a glottal stop with words beginning with vowels.
> > People often run them together in colloquial
> speech.
> > But even in colloquial speech I almost always hear
> a
> > glottal stop between a word ending in a vowel and
> a
> > following word beginning with a vowel.
> > Except for Salvadoran Spanish, where <Santa Ana>
> is
> > /santa?ana/ instead of normal /santaana/ I never
> hear
> > that in Spanish.
> >
>
>

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/25369

>
> which is why is hard to sing rock in Romance
> languages and why Domingo
> sounds odd when he sings Wagner.
>
>
> Torsten
>
>
>

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