http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2006/04/27/please-call-stella Pontification without all the gritty gravitas Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:10:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2006/04/27/please-call-stella#comment-721 wolfa Thu, 27 Apr 2006 22:23:27 +0000 http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2006/04/27/please-call-stella#comment-721 I would think so -- at least, a fluent speaker who knew basic linguistics could. Do the stress patterns of your other language, replace some of the sounds English has and your language doesn't with other sounds. Old English would involve, say, making all <em>f</em>s <em>v</em>s between two vowels, and the reverse anywhere else . . . mostly we can do accents because we know them, but I don't see why we can't figure them out, too. I would think so — at least, a fluent speaker who knew basic linguistics could. Do the stress patterns of your other language, replace some of the sounds English has and your language doesn’t with other sounds. Old English would involve, say, making all fs vs between two vowels, and the reverse anywhere else . . . mostly we can do accents because we know them, but I don’t see why we can’t figure them out, too.

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