Re: Finnish KASKI

You have been taught wrong.

Patrick

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From: "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
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Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 4:28 AM
Subject: Re: Re: [tied] Re: Finnish KASKI


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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Patrick Ryan
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> 1) English - English schoolboy German e.g that <-> das, two <-> <zwei>
> /sfai/.
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> Only if they had an incompetent teacher.
> It is /tsWai/.
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> I've been taught /tsvaj/
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> Arnaud
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> 2) If we can trust Savina's Dictionnaire tay-annamite-français, we
> have Siamese /s/ - 'Tay' /th/. However, the less common Siamese /th/
> also corresponds to 'Tay' /th/. I think Arnaud has an even better
> example from some nearby Chinese dialects.
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> Actually this is not exactly a change from *t > *s
> but a very odd change from *s > t !
> Arnaud
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