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As of this week, sometimes.

Up until then, not really, no; they'd simply elide one letter or the
other; {dirba} -> "DIH-ba", "fart" -> "faht", "aunt" -> "aht".

There are a lot more English words where that works without
confusion, and a *LOT* more English words that simply don't have any
significant consonant clusters.  They've been saying "banana" (or at
least "nana") for ages, for example.

This was my point: given the choice between a language with lots of
words they can see, and one with lots they can't, they pick the
former.

-Robin

On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 03:50:09AM -0600, Jonathan Jones wrote:
> Can they do clusters /at all/?
> 
> 
> Also, can they say "pigeon"? I ask because if they can say "pigeon", then
> {cidja} shouldn't be too far down the road from pronounceable, I expect.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 3:43 AM, Robin Lee Powell <
> rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 03:36:48AM -0600, Jonathan Jones wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 2:42 AM, Robin Lee Powell <
> > > rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Pro-tip: there is not a toddler in the world that can emit the
> > > > difference between {cidja} and {citka}.
> > > >
> > >
> > > This is actually kind of surprising to me, because "she-ja" and
> > > "sheet-ka(AAAAAHHHHNNNNN!!!)" seem very different insofar as the
> > > medial cluster.
> >
> > If they could emit medial clusters, we wouldn't be having this
> > discussion.
> >
> > -Robin
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