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Re: News from Maltz

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghunchu'wI')
Wed Jul 29 22:26:32 2009

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From: "ghunchu'wI'" <qunchuy@alcaco.net>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:15:25 -0400
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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On Jul 29, 2009, at 10:17 AM, Mark J. Reed wrote:

> But it does also fly in the face of the oft-repeated advice that "{'}
> is just another letter".

The glottal stop sound has a real reason to be considered atypical  
*as a sound*: it cannot be voiced.  But it's still just as important  
as any other phoneme.

-- ghunchu'wI'




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