Re: Is it too late for my American-sounding toddler?
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:39:19 +0200
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:22:56 -0700: Evan Kirshenbaum
<kirshenbaum@hpl.hp.com>: in sci.lang:
>It's not just that they're stored differently. They're pronounced
>differently. In American English, most (in cases like this, all) of
>the distinction between voiced and voiceless stops is carried on the
>preceding vowel, ...
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Re: Is it too late for my American-sounding toddler?
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:36:15 +0000 (UTC)
In alt.usage.english Evan Kirshenbaum <kirshenbaum@hpl.hp.com> wrote:
: Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> writes:
<snip>
:> I agree. I can tell the difference between the way I (and other
:> Americans) say "bedding" and "betting", but I had an amusing
:> conversation recently in which I was complaining about ...
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Re: Is it too late for my American-sounding toddler?
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:29:46 -0700
James Silverton wrote:
> Skitt wrote:
>> James Silverton wrote:
>>> Just an ignorant question; does Latvian hold the record
>>> for number of cases or are there languages with more?
>
>> I don't know. Isn't it the same as Latin? I took Latin for
>> almost three years, but it was long ago and far away.
>
> ...
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Re: Is it too late for my American-sounding toddler?
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:28:34 -0700 (PDT)
On Apr 21, 1:58?pm, "James Silverton" <not.jim.silver...@verizon.not>
wrote:
> ?Skitt ?wrote ?on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:51:25 -0700:
>
> ?S> James Silverton wrote:
> ? ??>>
> ???>>> Then there's the plurals, but I won't bother.
> ???>>
> ???>> Just an ignorant question; does Latvian hold the record
> ???>> for n ...
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Mon, 4 Feb 2008 22:10:56 -0000
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All boys?
Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:37:12 +0000
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OK my other half just asked if it was a boys school!
--
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