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 1. etaoin shrdlu



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Date:  Tue, 13 Sep 1994 09:16:14 -0500

From:  debaron[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UIUC.EDU

Subject: Re: etaoin shrdlu



>

>Wayne Glowka say,



>I was once told by an English major from Chile that Chilean comedians

>imitate the sounds of English (without using any English at all) by endless

>repetition of fricatives, especially /s/. She did not specify which vowels

>should go between the s's. Notably, she did not get the joke when someone

>in class (me) imitated Spanish by making a lot of /k/ and trilled /r/

>sounds; however, we were on common ground with a honking nasal imitation of

>French.



My friend Lucy Moreira, a romance linguist who just left Urbana to teach at

UGA, came back from Athens last month after house-hunting and did an

imitation of a southern accent that, despite her own Brazilian phones, was

both quite recognizable and not unlike my own feeble attempts to reproduce

one.



Of course she also found out that anyone with a Hispanic accent trying to

rent in Athens is just plain out of luck. In the end she had to have

someone else rent for her. Welcome to America.



dennis

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