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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 21 April 2007 - Volume 02</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_Ben.Bloomgren@asu.edu" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">"Ben J. Bloomgren" <<a href="mailto:Ben.Bloomgren@asu.edu">
Ben.Bloomgren@asu.edu</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Orthography" 2007.04.21 (01) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Sandy, Ron and all,</font></div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="q">
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<div><font size="2">Naturally enough, I see the evidence of
this<br>when I try to teach non-signers a few signs and they just can't copy my
<br>handshapes and movements accurately, the way a proficient signer
would.</font></div>
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<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">As for spoken languages, I must have the juggler's
mind. I know and encounter so many people who try to learn a foreign language
but cannot for the life of them pronounce correctly the sounds of the receptor
language. Most of that is the lack of native speaker training outside class and
beyond the professor, but some of it is their mouth. For some odd reason, some
tongues that have not had the exposure to the rolled r of Spanish just cannot
recreate it. The only sounds that tried to trip me up were the nonpulmonics of
Zulu and other Nguni and Khoisan languages and the voiceless uvular stop of the
Arabic word "Quran". I have to be really careful because I'm a language snob.
I'm not one of these who can just bow slightly and sigh, "oh... well... He's
trying..."!</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Ben</font></div><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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