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Peter Collier skrev:
--- Benct Philip Jonsson <melroch@hidden.email> wrote: Germanic outside English is shock full of /kv/, whether spelled _kv/qu/kw_. What's the point of making a Germanic- taste language if you dislike typical Germanic sounds and sound-combination? (Just wondering...) I think that's moot. Northern Germanic has /kv/, but
Not *that* much, actually. The _kv-_ initial words of swedish fit comfortably on a dictionary page.
it seems to me to be pretty rare in Western Germanic languages: There are no examples in English, I don't know of any in Dutch, which like English has kept /w/
The Dutch sound is actually different: a labiodental approximant.
(although my knowledge there is very limited, so I may well be wrong), and there aren't *that* many in German, especially once you strip out all the loan words (quadrat, qualit�t, aquarium, quartier, etc). I
Maybe.
can think of perhaps qual/qu�len, quatsch, queck_, quelle... I'm sure there's a handful more, not counting compounds and grammatically related words, but not too many. The Germanics are fine, I just have an irrationaldislike of esperanto. Especially "kvin" (5). Bleurgh. He should have kept the /w/.
He should have handled numerals in a consistent
way, coming up with an ending for them, and '5'
should have been built on _cink-_. Basta!
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/BP 8^)>
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Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se
"Maybe" is a strange word. When mum or dad says it
it means "yes", but when my big brothers say it it
means "no"!
(Philip Jonsson jr, age 7)