10.02.2005

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another weird fact:

"In Farsi, no word starts with two consonants."
"Therefore attention must be paid to the spelling of the words or names of foreign origin with this kind of spelling."

*Estera'vinski (Stravinsky), esta'diyom (stadium)

Spanish speakers have the same problem with words that begin with "sc(r)" or "st(r)".
They need to add the "e".
Is it the same with other latin-based languages, or is this solely from an arabic influence?
my french is limited: escargot.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Italian: statzione (station), stronzo (asshole), sciare (to ski), blu (the color blue)

French: chat (cat), cheval (horse), plier (to bend), grand (big)

For that matter--Spanish grande

But I think you were thinking the sp sound...

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