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--- Christian Thalmann <cinga@hidden.email> wrote: > Padraic: Very intriguing. Gotta love the way > your people never seem > able to say something without swearing and > insulting the English. ;-) That's "bloody par for the bloody course" as the Scots say! ;) > I still can't wrap my mind around the > pronunciation though... for > example, I can't see why |d| sometimes > palatizes to [Z] (e.g. |decki|) > and sometimes doesn't (|depon|), Preverbs tend to resist sound change. In fact, it is a sound rule that mutations skip any preverbs and directly affect the verb root. Mutations skip prepositions and articles too. Otherwise, the combination "de-" tends to suffer from the change of [d]>[dZ] or [Z]. Compare with "deck" /ZEk/, 10. > or why |z| can be both [D] (|faz|) and [z] > (|Zawzen|), or when nasalisation of the vowel > occurs. An example of how one letter can stand for multiple sounds. Kerno is not phonemic (to the Foreigner, anyway!); and zed can stand for [ts], [Z] and [i] & [3] as well (the latter two only in archaic texts, and even then its use as [i] is restricted to the conjunction "and"; [3] of course is the voiced counterpart of [x]). > Barry: Very Spanish! In fact, I think I could > understand most of it without subtitles I agree! Padraic. ===== fas peryn omen c' yng ach h-yst yn caleor peryn ndia; enffoge yn omen ach h-yst yn caleor per la gouitha. . __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com