Re: k-like sounds in English and other European languages

On Oct 12, 11:41 pm, "Brian M. Scott" <b.sc...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:20:57 -0700 (PDT),
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On Oct 12, 11:04 pm, "Brian M. Scott" <b.sc...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:00:22 -0700 (PDT),
<analys...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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in sci.lang:
On Oct 12, 10:49 pm, "Brian M. Scott" <b.sc...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:16:36 -0400, Nathan Sanders
<nsand...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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in sci.lang:
In article
<d1fca8d2-3b81-4b29-b0ec-4c3e962d8...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
 analys...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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If you look at the following consonant clusters in English, it seems
to me that
(1) kt
(2) kd
(3) gt
(4) gd
Only (1) Where k can stand for (c, ck etc.) can occur in a single word
- all the others can only occur in compound words or at word
boundaries.
(2) anecdote
Too tame.  <g>  Ecdysiast.
tame also - not a counterexample (a morpheme boundary
separates the c and d).
Not in English.
That is very stupid.

It's a fact,

Whether it is a fact or not - asserting it is stupid. We are trying
to learn here and not compete over who can be stupider *** than petey-
boy or some such thing.

No words innovated within English can have the cd cluster in a single
morpheme.

If a word in English does have the cluster and the morpheme boundary
separating them cannot be discerned in English, it would be found in
the original word the English word came from.

OK?

In case you are going to continue in the farting in public vein - try
to come up with wittier insults ("im not stupid, YOU are" - sheesh.)
and don't snip dishonestly.





whether you like it or not.  For a real example
of extreme stupidity, look in a mirror.

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