Re: Accent

[Robin Turner <robin@xxxxxxx.xxx.xxx]

la .ivan cusku di'e

> Robin Turner wrote:
> > AFAIK Japanese (and maybe Cantonese, but the other way round)
> > are the only people with the r/l problem, which they would
> > encounter learning just about any foreign language.
>
> Oh, there is no shortage of languages with a single /l / r/
> phoneme (when there is only one, it doesn't really make much
> sense to ask whether it is /l/ or /r/). Apart from Mandarin,
> Cantonese, Japanese and Korean, there's the entire Polynesian
> family; remember Hawai`ian _Mele= Kali=kimaka=_ `Merry Xmas'?

For once I think I've caught Ivan out! Although Mandarin doesn't have
exactly the same /l/r/ sounds as English, there's still a distinction e.g.
"ren", "li".

co'o mi'e robin.