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(can't miss the opportunity to startle y'all with weird cyrillic letters =P; reads [s 'novɨm 'godəm], meaning the same thing)
Anyway, I'm more or less back, and ready for more
By the way, Carnival of Evolution #19 is up at Observations of a Nerd.
Now to quickly slap together a 'Sunday' Protist before everyone realises it's Monday already... Not that anyone hasn't yet. Mondays are a rather noticeable occurrence, especially after holidays...
After not speaking English for a couple of weeks, I have to re-learn the damn thing again. My tongue feels awkward uttering English phonemes...
" 's novim godam"? ... i'd transliterate it as: "It's november, goddammit!".
ReplyDeletewell, schwa != [a], technically speaking. Unstressed /o/ sounds like unstressed /a/ in Russian, but does not sound like stressed /a/.
ReplyDeleteI actually ENJOYED the phonology part of linguistics. More so than syntax. I must be insane...
Well, the unenjoyment of syntax may or may not have something to do with my vicious irrational hatred for anything Chomsky...
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