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From: Myself,PresentContinuouslyTenseMallu on 4 Mar 2010 10:06
On 3/4/2010 5:11 AM, Romanise wrote:
> On Mar 4, 11:38 am, "J. Clarke"<jclarke.use...(a)cox.net> wrote:
>
>> Is "snake-rapist" some kind of Hindu thing?
>
> Speakers of Indic languages have limited vowel phonemes and have to
> struggle coping with English vowel phonemes. This genius is no
> exception except he keeps trying to foist that limitation on speakers
> of languages other than Bengali, in this case Gujarati as he has
> always been made feel low compared with Gujaratis.
>
> So he puts his hyper-correction in pronouncing snack and wrap onto
> Gujaratis (his gujju). For us with Indian mother tongues
> differentiating bet bat bate consistely is hard.
>
> www.dmjoshi.org

But hearing Bengalis speak English will either make you cringe or go
absolutely 'bonanas.' :-)
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