Re: My Pet Dinosaur - Re: If the asteroid had missed...

[Dora Smith <villandra@austin.rr.com>]

I hope I don't get sent to the corner for asking this....

How do you pronounce an r like a vowel?

Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, TX, USA
tiggernut24@yahoo.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>
To: "DML" <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 5:20 PM
Subject: Re: My Pet Dinosaur - Re: If the asteroid had missed...


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard W. Travsky" <rtravsky@uwyo.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 4:33 PM
>
> > http://netjeff.com/humor/item.cgi?file=ClintonsBosniaPlan
> >
> > Clinton Deploys Vowels to Bosnia
>
> Interesting what a little orthography will do to people. The only 
> consonant that can be syllabic in Serboc... BCSM is _r_, and most 
> Americans use their own _r_ all the time as if it were a vowel, even 
> though the spelling always carefully hides this fact.
>
> Of course... Czech, Slovak and Sanskrit, for example, have syllabic _r_ 
> and _l_, which in the latter two languages have a length distinction like 
> the vowels. Georgian has _r_, _l_ and _v_... German has _m_, _n_, _ng_, 
> and _l_ (again consistently denied by the spelling), though only in some 
> positions within a word... and then there is... 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nux%C3%A1lk_language#Syllables 



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