Re: Bantu click letters

From: jcowan@reutershealth.com
Date: Thu Jun 10 2004 - 12:09:56 CDT

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    Peter Constable scripsit:

    > Would you consider these too idiosyncratic?

    No. The "idio-" in "idiosyncratic" has to do with an individual.
    I forgot to point this out earlier, but !Xu phonology isn't idiosyncratic
    either -- it's just unusual. To the !Xu it's the normal thing. 

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