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Mark wrote:<br>
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My wife emailed me today:
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I'm waiting for a call back from my cousin, who is far too vague about
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things: we need to pin them down. As in, "We could put a shelf in her
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closet" or "We can pack up some of the chachquis to make it less
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I've seen lots of spellings for /'tSatSki/: tchotchke I think is the
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that comes most readily to me. But never a Spanish one before. And
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only one googit for it.
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My wife is not Spanish/Hispanic and does not speak Spanish. OTOH, like
me,
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she grew up in NYC where you see an awful lot of Spanish, and she's not
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ignorant of Spanish orthography.
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Mark, you do realize you've stepped in a minefield by giving the basic
pronunciation /tSatSki/ rather than /tSatSk@/. On other forums (those
devoted to Yiddish language) folks get EXTREMELY exercised over this
issue (the final /i/ is considered an American barbarism), and even
linguists seem to feel this way (at least those who are also native
speakers of Yiddish).<br>
Just a word to the wise...<br>
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Geoff<br>
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Geoffrey S. Nathan
Department of English/Computing and Information Technology
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI, 48202
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