Arabic-L:LING:/q/ /'/ /g/ /d/ jokes

[Dilworth B. Parkinson]

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1) Subject: /q/ /'/ joke
2) Subject: /g/ /d/ joke

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Date: 05 Nov 1999
From: Gunvor Mejdell <gunvor.mejdell at east.uio.no>
Subject: /q/ /'/ joke

the following "hypercorrection" example is "supposed" to be produced by a
school-boy:

raqaytu qasadan na:qiman @ala l-qarD

(it seems a kind of too-good-to be-true-story, I believe I had it from
Heikki Palva, and it works in class )

Gunvor Mejdell

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2)
Date: 05 Nov 1999
From: DWILMSEN at aucegypt.edu
Subject: /g/ /d/ joke

here is another joke.  this one having to do with a regional variation of
/g/ (the cairene reflex of /j/) as /d/. (i'll bet you hadnt heard of that
one!)


inta mi-l balad illi biy'uulu @ala l-giim diim fiiha?
la' ana mil-balad illi dambaha

;0D

david wilmsen

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