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ya johano2009uk, 14 Oktoba 2009

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3rdblade (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 14 Aprili 2010 12:35:05 asubuhi

fusilo - gun,
ceigered:
Rogir:I personally prefer pafilo for gun. It's such a nice and fun word.
Actually thats a much better word, thanks Rogir ridulo.gif
I believe the 'fusi' refers to the 'rifling' inside the barrel of a gun which improves accuracy, a twisting groove which early guns, like muskets, didn't have. So a 'fusilo' is a bit more specific & brings to mind a rifle with a long barrel.

I thought of this because I like to eat fusili.

Pharoah (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 14 Aprili 2010 12:57:37 asubuhi

> The ĥ is the same as the Mandarin "h" sound...

Are you sure about that? It always sounds much closer to a regular h to me.

Coniferoes (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 15 Aprili 2010 6:37:28 asubuhi

dankon!

ceigered (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 15 Aprili 2010 8:56:09 asubuhi

Pharoah:> The ĥ is the same as the Mandarin "h" sound...

Are you sure about that? It always sounds much closer to a regular h to me.
Mandarin Phonology.
Voiceless velar fricative [x]

There's no English "h" in proper Standard (whatever you agree with) Mandarin, only a [x] sound. This is what the Esperanto /ĥ/ is. However, the Esperanto /ĥ/ can also represent related sounds like [χ], which appears in Dutch words like Scheveningen and occaisionally appears in German in words like Dach apparently.

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