From: James Frusetta (gerakkag@wam.umd.edu)
Date: Mon 30 Jun 1997 - 14:50:27 EEST
Alex forgets the East bitz o' Europe:
>German is with the Conglomerated Union of Teutonic and Nordic Languages
>on this one. Then you have the Allied Iberian Craft Federation
>(somewhat like a gutteral 'ch', with plenty of phlegm in it), and for
>once, English sits fairly tamely in the middle of the Generic and
>Municipal Romance Languages and Affliated Tongues. Who did I miss?
Pan-Slavic Inc., where a "j" is pretty much just like an English "j" but
AFAIK, true for Russian and the South Slavics. West Slavics might be
more rare. Occasionally (and it may be more of a local accent thing than
the languages) I'll hear straight "j"s pronounced a little like a "dj"
("James" would turn into "Djims"), but "dj" is properly a different
letter, I recall. Looks like a funky fate rune in the S Slav alphabet.
different.
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