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TixhiiDon
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 Message 137 of 426
28 May 2012 at 10:40am | IP Logged 
zecchino1991 wrote:
So is there a way I could make this sound more natural? " ეს არის
ამერიკული პროგრამა, მაგრამ ესპანურად არის."


I may be wrong, but I don't think you need ეს, so you could just say ამერიკული
პროგრამაა. As for the second part, you could say ესპანურადაა, but I don't know which
one sounds more natural.
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zecchino1991
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 Message 138 of 426
06 June 2012 at 8:31pm | IP Logged 
Interesting...
http://rustavi2.com/news/news_text.php?
id_news=45672&pg=1&im=main&ct=0&wth=1223#.T8843D9fstU.twitte r

I know it's just for schools, but I think the more Georgian language books in existence
the better!

EDIT: *sigh* As usual remove the space between the e and r in "twitter" (at the end).
Someday I will figure out how to make URLs work in this thing...

Edited by zecchino1991 on 06 June 2012 at 8:33pm

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zecchino1991
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 Message 139 of 426
08 June 2012 at 2:00am | IP Logged 
Just a random thought on my mind... Why do people write Facebook like this: ფეისბუქი,
with ქ and not კ?
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Murdoc
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 Message 140 of 426
10 June 2012 at 7:07pm | IP Logged 
zecchino1991,
I don't know why, I guess there's must be reason for it, because I would never write ფეისბუკი either.
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 Message 141 of 426
10 June 2012 at 11:04pm | IP Logged 
Isn't the -k in English 'book' aspirated?
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zecchino1991
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 Message 142 of 426
10 June 2012 at 11:38pm | IP Logged 
No, aspirated sounds can't come at the end of syllables in English. They only happen at
the beginning of stressed syllables, unless there is an 's' before them. So for example
the 'p' in port is aspirated but the 'p' in sport is not. And a P at the end of a word
(like "tap") would never be aspirated, not even a little bit. Meaning you don't even
release any air at all, like you would in most other languages (at least in American
English, I don't know about other dialects).

Another thing: I don't remember if it was in this log or someone else's, but once I was
looking for the audio for Aronson's book and I didn't find it. Well, thanks to
liddytime I found it! http://www.iu.edu/~celtie/georgian_g311_g312_g511_g512.html
(Scroll to the bottom). I love how she reads these boring sentences with so much
enthusiasm! Haha.


Edited by zecchino1991 on 11 June 2012 at 5:15am

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 Message 143 of 426
11 June 2012 at 3:45am | IP Logged 
Well yeah but speakers of other languages might perceive it differently, I mean, maybe when rendering the sound into Georgian, it's not only aspiration / lack of aspiration that counts for deciding whether they'll use an ejective or an aspirated k. Other components of articulation might play a role as well and lead Georgian teenagers to write facebook with an aspirated k.
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zecchino1991
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 Message 144 of 426
11 June 2012 at 3:51am | IP Logged 
Yeah that's true. Maybe they are used to English words often being transcribed with
aspirated letters and don't really understand the rule, so they overuse it. But maybe
there is another reason too, I'm just guessing. :)


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