Re: Marginale phonemes in Finnish

In article <quhb531a5ibfv3ru02r7qokhf3erlugk5l@xxxxxxx>,
Ruud Harmsen <realemailonsite@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

24 May 2007 08:44:28 -0700: "Peter T. Daniels"
<grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:

That's what you get if you don't click URLs: a lot of things remain
unknown to you.

Clicking your stupid (or possibly otherwise) link would not shed any
light whatsoever on this ridiculous nonsense:

Okay!! So Greek or Hebrew is a valid reason in trying to reason away
the phonemic difference between English /T/ and /D/ !?!?! I always
thought such reasons weren't allowed! And so is grammatical status
(article, demonstrative pronoun, noun etc.) ??

It is not nonsense, but the logical consequence of what you said about
German. You said <Chance> could be /Sans@/. Then the only reason why
it is [SA~s@] and not [Sans@] could possibly be the French origin. If
this is possible with German and French, it is also possible with
English and Hebrew/Greek.

You presume too much about the typical English speaker's knowledge of
Hebrew and Greek.

Nathan

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Nathan Sanders
Linguistics Program
Williams College
http://wso.williams.edu/~nsanders/
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