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#28452 05/09/01 09:30 AM
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At least we can pronounce "tsk tsk", fricatively or literally. I went to University with a guy from South Africa who could speak the native language (Xhosa, I think but I'm not sure) which has all the clucks or clicks (x's) in it. He tried to teach me to say just ONE word like that. And I couldn't, for the life of me.

Anyone know anything about the language?



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I never could get the hang of the 'clicks' but I had a similar experience. When I was nine, one of my best friends had recently immigrated from South Africa, and she tried to teach me to say the name of the language (Xhosa). I could only do it in two pieces, never quite like she could. For me it was "click" - big pause - "osa".


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I can say !Kung all by itself but if I run into it in the middle of a sentence I have to stop and prep myself. There is another click that is essentially the TSK sound we been talking about that is fairly common in US'ns' English, but it has no phonemic value. It's just a sound some people make while talking.


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