From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 61910
Date: 2008-12-06
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From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
>>
>> > Some article I read recently was head-scratching over 'dweep' and
>> > 'twerp' with their rare initial consonant sequences. Wonder what
>> > substrate future linguists will infer from those?
>>
>> Future substratologists will derive them from the same pre-IE
>> substrate as <oink-oink> and <boing> (the "dwoing" language).
>
> I love the smell of sarcasm in the morning. Preferably my own.
> I'd like to think that those future substratologists would document at
> least one case of **dwoi- before they merged two such substrates.
> I know I would.
>
>
> Torsten
>
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This rare sequence dw- tw- reminds me of Basque having no m and using this
odd sound to convey more expressivity with some words made with this sound.
Looks like twerp is basically an combination of expressive odd sounds.
Where is the "substrate" in there ?
A.