You'll find plain vs aspirated stop distinctions all over Africa and Asia.
Vigilantibus non dormientibus jura subveniunt.
—Nous disons en allemand : le guerre, le mort, le lune, alors que 'soleil' et 'amour' sont du sexe féminin : la soleil, la amour. La vie est neutre.
—La vie ? Neutre ? C'est très joli, et surtout très logique.
—Nous disons en allemand : le guerre, le mort, le lune, alors que 'soleil' et 'amour' sont du sexe féminin : la soleil, la amour. La vie est neutre.
—La vie ? Neutre ? C'est très joli, et surtout très logique.
Harry Potter and multilingualism
- 01/12/2011 10:30:44 PM
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I received the Serbian translation of The Chamber of Secrets as a birthday gift years ago
- 01/12/2011 11:15:04 PM
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I have the Classical Greek version of Book 1.
- 02/12/2011 02:06:20 AM
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You should listen to the recording and tell me what you think of the accent.
- 02/12/2011 07:28:57 PM
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Well, there's a lot more effort to be authentic than you'll find in most British schools and unis.
- 04/12/2011 11:55:51 AM
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But it was spoken with no attempt at inflection.
- 04/12/2011 04:44:12 PM
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Icelanders would also have no problem. *NM*
- 04/12/2011 11:44:14 PM
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Interesting. It is a rare distinction in the modern world, it seems. *NM*
- 05/12/2011 01:48:35 AM
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I don't think so; only in the Indo-European family.
- 05/12/2011 09:32:40 AM
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"All over Asia" is a bit of a stretch.
- 05/12/2011 01:23:16 PM
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All the sources I can find say that Mandarin has it.
- 05/12/2011 02:57:27 PM
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3 years of formal Mandarin tell me otherwise.
- 05/12/2011 06:19:34 PM
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Do either of you know of any sources that speak Classical Greek correctly, tones and all?
- 06/12/2011 03:44:09 AM
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Ain't found it. All Americans I know use accents as stress marks rather than tonal inflections. *NM*
- 06/12/2011 09:11:49 PM
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The first book I read in Spanish was Lord of the Rings (Señor de los anillos)
- 02/12/2011 08:52:18 AM
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