Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 17:39:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Marc Ramirez <mrami@mrami.homeunix.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: French, Flemish and English (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c) Message-ID: <20020524173415.F625-100000@mrami.homeunix.org> In-Reply-To: <20020524173331.A5683@lpt.ens.fr>
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On Fri, 24 May 2002, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Marc Ramirez said on May 24, 2002 at 11:12:40: > > If we're talking about repeating a spoken word, it again goes through two > > filters: 1) what sounds am I used to differentiating, and 2) what sounds > > am I used to making. To demonstrate #1, my Dad cannot hear the difference > > between Sri Lanka (pronounced 'sree') and Sri Lanka (pronounced 'shree'). > > He is not used to trying to tell the difference, because that is not a > > minimal pair in his ideolect of American English, the only dialect he > > speaks. Therefore when he says Sri Lanka, it always comes out 'shree', > > which is one of the many differences from what a native would say. > > I don't know how Sri Lankans say it, but most people in India would > say "shree". As far as I can tell (from three sources besides my head, one is at http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A0846407.html), in Sinhalese, "Sri Lanka" starts with the /sr/ in "bus route". Marc. -- I telnetted to whitehouse.gov, and all I got was this lousy .signature! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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