Klarinet Archive - Posting 000426.txt from 2005/08
From: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?sarah=20elbaz?=" <sarah@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Kroepsch as phrasing studies
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:11:20 -0400
Thanks Tony!
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> From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
> Subject: Re: [kl] Kroepsch as phrasing studies
> Sent: 23 Aug '05 02:47
>
> On 23 Aug, "sarah elbaz" <sarah@-----.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am looking for two words in English that "behave" like the words IMA and
> > MAYIM in Hebrew. If you say IMA many times it sounds like MAYIM and the
> > same with the other word. (The meaning of the words is: IMA=mother, and
> > MAYIM=water.)
>
> It seems difficult to find English nouns behaving like this that are quite so
> simple and basic as the Hebrew ones you use. (It might be nice to just use
> the Hebrew ones even with non-Hebrew speakers -- I was delighted to learn my
> first two words of Hebrew....;-)
>
> Some possibilities, though they're not nouns:
>
> ATTEND (be present to) <--> TENDER (gentle)
> REFER (mention, or pass on) <--> FURRY (covered with fur, like a cat)
> RESULT (outcome) <--> SULTRY (languorous, sexy)
> 'ELLO (hello) <--> LOWER
>
> There's also the possibility of:
>
> REFUSE (accent on the second syllable, voiced 's', meaning, 'say no') and,
> REFUSE (accent on the first syllable, unvoiced 's', meaning, 'rubbish'.)
>
> Probably someone else will do better.
>
> Tony
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