Nobody's Perfect Dept.

Mark A. Mandel mamandel at LDC.UPENN.EDU
Mon Dec 18 20:32:46 UTC 2006


Jonathan quotes:

>>From a professional explication for undergraduates of cultural-theory terms:

>>  "Phoneme... A phoneme is the smallest significant unit in language; thus, both 'a"
>>and 'an' are phonemes, but 'n' is not."

Oh, dear God! Just shoot me now.

m a m

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