9.813, Qs: Eng. Words of Arabic Origin,@,Stops,Greek

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-9-813. Tue Jun 2 1998. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 9.813, Qs: Eng. Words of Arabic Origin,@,Stops,Greek

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1)
Date:  Sat, 23 May 1998 12:42:06 +0200
From:  Philippe LEMAIRE <Philippe.Lemaire at capway.com>
Subject:  English words from Arabic origin

2)
Date:  Fri, 29 May 1998 13:49:08 +0200
From:  "ROELLY Guillaume" <roelly at magma.cgg.com>
Subject:  @

3)
Date:  Sun, 31 May 1998 10:46:03 +0000
From:  cpeust at gwdg.de
Subject:  Qu: glottal stop

4)
Date:  Tue, 2 Jun 1998 15:40:10 +0200 (DFT)
From:  davide <n.rossini at humnet.unipi.it>
Subject:  Greek Endings

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Date:  Sat, 23 May 1998 12:42:06 +0200
From:  Philippe LEMAIRE <Philippe.Lemaire at capway.com>
Subject:  English words from Arabic origin

Hello !

I teach English in France to many pupils from Arabic origin.  I'm
looking for information about English words from Arabic origin.  Thank
you for your contribution to my research.

Regards

Marie-Pierre

P.S. I use my husband's E-mail address


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Date:  Fri, 29 May 1998 13:49:08 +0200
From:  "ROELLY Guillaume" <roelly at magma.cgg.com>
Subject:  @

Hello, I just reached your web site today speaking about this @ sign.

I'm french and yesterday I spoke half an hour with a Norwegiese to
make him know my e-mail adress. The problem was this particuliar sign.

He knew only the norwegian term for it which meant nothing to me !  He
tried to make me see by saying he pressed the keys "AltGr" and
"2". But as we do not share the same type of keyboards it's ~(tilde)
for me !

Moreover I was told when I started computing in 1982 that in french
the name for it was "aronde" wich shall be a play on words for "ronde"
means round so "aronde" sounds like "a ronde" (round a) "aronde" is
also a real french word used only in the "queue d'aronde" expression
meaning a dovetail in joinery businness.


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Date:  Sun, 31 May 1998 10:46:03 +0000
From:  cpeust at gwdg.de
Subject:  Qu: glottal stop

Dear linguists,

whenever a word begins with a vowel in German orthography, a glottal
stop is automatically added before in pronunciation. This is true also
in connected speech.  For example "Ich esse ein Ei" (I eat an egg) is
pronounced something like: "?ic ?ese ?ain ?ai" (? = glottal stop)

While it is possible to omit some of these glottal stops in casual
speech (there are also regional differences), it is actually very
common to speak them. German has no glottal stops in other positions,
so the glottal stop is usually not considered a phoneme in German.

Now I am looking for other languages which behave similarly, i.e. in
which words cannot usually begin with a vowel, but may begin with a
glottal stop, whereas the glottal stop is not found in other
positions.

Many thanks in advance for any answers. I will put a summary on the
list.

Carsten Peust, M.A.
cpeust at gwdg.de
Seminar fuer Aegyptologie
Prinzenstr. 21
37073 Goettingen
Germany


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Date:  Tue, 2 Jun 1998 15:40:10 +0200 (DFT)
From:  davide <n.rossini at humnet.unipi.it>
Subject:  Greek Endings

Hi. I'm making a research about Optative mood in ancient Greek texts
and I' m searching a PC program which could help me to find verb' s
attestations ( not only infinitive ) through all literature
( from Hesiod to New Testament ).  Could anybody help me ?


NICLA.
n.rossini at server.humnet.unipi.it

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