From dbtwery@bellatlantic.net Tue Aug 29 22:25:31 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30894 invoked from network); 30 Aug 2000 05:25:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 30 Aug 2000 05:25:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp-out2.bellatlantic.net) (199.45.39.157) by mta3 with SMTP; 30 Aug 2000 05:25:27 -0000 Received: from voyou (adsl-141-151-12-33.bellatlantic.net [141.151.12.33]) by smtp-out2.bellatlantic.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id BAA15476 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 01:25:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <007801c01242$79a26040$aa45fea9@voyou> To: References: <8obdcm+thm2@eGroups.com> <39AA0D04.1AC5@math.bas.bg> Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: World-historical and religious figures in Lojban Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 01:23:46 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 From: "David Twery" From: Ivan A Derzhanski Sent: Monday, 28 August 2000 02:56 > > From the example of Austrian pronunciation of the word > > _Tunnel_ (Germ.: about /tun,l/ Austrian: almost /tun,dl/) one > > perhaps might see that tendency also between nasals and liquids. > > Yes, there too; cf. Russian substandard _ndrav_ for standard _nrav_ > `temper, character, disposition'. > > --Ivan This happens a lot in modern American English: e.g., "drowning" (drauning) usually turns into "drownding" (*draunding). It seems to be much more common in the South (i.e., south of Maryland and east of the Mississippi River). --d