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From: selvakum@valluvar.uwaterloo.ca (C.R. Selvakumar)
Subject: Re: Acquisition of phonemes thfough foreign influences
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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 22:08:16 GMT
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In article <43shrv$med@clarknet.clark.net>,
Harlan Messinger <gusty@clark.net> wrote:
[..]
>only for open syllables and intersyllabic /n/. Therefore, foreign words
>are recast so that they have only open syllables (except /n/, as in
>a-i-ru-ra-n-do = "Ireland").
>
>Languages with alphabets can manage to adopt conventions for particular 
>foreign sounds, as we do in English with "ch" or "kh" for velar 
>fricatives, or as German does with "dsch" for English /j/ in "jungle" >> 
>"Dschungel". 
>

     When German doesn't have /j/, who gave them the name 'German' ?! :-)
     Why were not known as Deutsch or its 'corruptions' ? Or is 'German
     a 'corruption' of 'Desutsch' ?!  Thanks, Selva


     


