From iad@xxxx.xxx.xxx Wed Feb 10 10:26:59 1999 X-Digest-Num: 56 Message-ID: <44114.56.219.959273824@eGroups.com> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 10:26:59 -0800 From: Ivan A Derzhanski 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'? -- `Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.' (Chief Seattle) Ivan A Derzhanski H: cplx Iztok bl 91, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria W: Dept for Math Lx, Inst for Maths & CompSci, Bulg Acad of Sciences