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erilar

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Nov 20, 2009, 5:22:39 PM11/20/09
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In article <he473...@drn.newsguy.com>,
R H Draney <dado...@spamcop.net> wrote:

> I can't believe there really *is* a right way to pronounce things in
> French...half their letters are silent, and the other half are covered with
> little flyspecks and kickstands....r

to say nothing of those spoken through the nose. . .

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Nov 21, 2009, 4:16:06 PM11/21/09
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On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:22:39 -0600, erilar
<dra...@chibardun.net.invalid> wrote:

>In article <he473...@drn.newsguy.com>,
> R H Draney <dado...@spamcop.net> wrote:
>
>> I can't believe there really *is* a right way to pronounce things in
>> French...half their letters are silent, and the other half are covered with
>> little flyspecks and kickstands....r
>
>to say nothing of those spoken through the nose. . .

I can't tell if you're American, but I will say that when I
returned from living a year in Canada I realized that Americans,
especially midwesterners, do talk through their noses. I had not
realized this before, likely because I grew up in midwestern
America.

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