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Old July 22, 2009, 04:24 AM
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Originally Posted by irmamar View Post
But this is not a speech problem, but a way of speaking. I have a relative who burned his tongue when he was a child. Now he pronounces /r/ as if he was French: he has a speech problem. But the French don't have a speech problem, since their way of pronouncing /r/ is their way of speaking. There's a great difference between one thing and another. Or I think so.
Right. What I was trying to convey is that if you pronounce mesa as meza, I think you've got a problem...
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