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This one interests me, and will have to get back to it. I know you all are looking for English words, but other languages have, as we all know, different ways of doing things. I am reminded that when big oil Exxon switched from Esso, they searched everywhere for any language with a double 'x',and found it only in Maltese, where exxon is not a word.
And there are the !Kung in Africa: a nation with lots of clicks in their lingo, and the ! refers to one of them.
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Thank you. I don't understand why so many people have trouble pronouncing the name of the cultural center of the universe (including me).
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Thank you. I don't understand why so many people have trouble pronouncing the name of the cultural center of the universe (including me). you're welcome! but thank Jackie for it, she's the one who taught me! /hug
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This one interests me, and will have to get back to it. I know you all are looking for English words, but other languages have, as we all know, different ways of doing things. Russian has two whole words that are each nothing but a single consonant. B and C. No that's not a bee and a cee; it's a vee and an ess.
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Curiosity got to me.
What do the C and B ( vee and ess ) mean when translated?
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What do the C and B ( vee and ess ) mean when translated?
They are prepositions: B 'into, in', C 'from, with, off'.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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What do the C and B ( vee and ess ) mean when translated?
They are prepositions: B 'into, in', C 'from, with, off'. B becomes BO before "heavy consonant clusters". In Russian I think by "heavy consonant cluster" they mean more than about five consonants.
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What do the C and B ( vee and ess ) mean when translated?
They are prepositions: B 'into, in', C 'from, with, off'. B becomes BO before "heavy consonant clusters". In Russian I think by "heavy consonant cluster" they mean more than about five consonants. working like that often creates BO.
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