• mathemachristian[he]
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    1 year ago

    In a 2 for 1 special this also means they wouldn’t be able to speak German properly since it has the same uvular r sound.

  • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]@hexbear.net
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    There’d be a workaround by velarizing the uvular fricative (beeg wurd for how tung moov forwerd a bit). Like how French people understand the th-sound as how children who have lost their two front teeth pronounce their Ts.

    Hebrew, on the other hand, would have problems.

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      1 year ago

      So he should be able to speak a language that’ll be dead in 1000 years. But he won’t be able to speak one that was dead 1000 years ago… got it.