Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: GNU Date: 7 Mar 2026 22:40:12 GMT Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <10o629v$1qssb$1@dont-email.me> <10o6emj$1uql3$5@dont-email.me> <20260303111343.00000572@gmail.com> <20260304080130.000068c7@gmail.com> <10oab0q$39n4f$6@dont-email.me> <10ocqti$4fas$3@dont-email.me> <10od9kg$9cih$1@dont-email.me> <10odne1$d647$1@dont-email.me> <10odnsi$d647$2@dont-email.me> <10odop7$djnv$1@dont-email.me> <10odsq2$er59$1@dont-email.me> <1772787512-12588@newsgrouper.org> <10oeeru$kih0$1@dont-email.me> <10oeiea$lo5g$2@dont-email.me> <6our7mxi9i.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10oh35t$1g6or$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net oHvInkGOYCzsy2VucwqmTg7MJ4MXAaUkv63+3Ow5hiYlMYoI+U Cancel-Lock: sha1:qxGi3RD9JPsKl9K5UYzyUD9gKjU= sha256:jFiNmJEzD8823dHP/dt1jNWdQnWY3jDQUAebViCmzIc= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:82571 alt.usage.english:1138766 On Sat, 7 Mar 2026 12:46:05 +0100, Bertel Lund Hansen wrote: > Den 07.03.2026 kl. 12.22 skrev Carlos E.R.: > >> Similarly, English speaking people have problems saying "Jorge" in >> Spanish, or the double "rr". :-D > > I have learnt a bit of Spanish in a course of one year, weekly > sessions. I can't make the rr-sound unless I produce a hurricane of air. > One of my daughters (or both?) can make that sound as quiet as she > likes, and so can her eldest son. So I don't think that it's so much a > question of previous language as the genetic abality to move your tongue > in different ways. But of course, if I had been born in a > Spanish-speaking country I would have learnt through practise. As a kid I had problems with 'th'. I'm still closer to 'dese, dem, and dose' than some, or Keit rather than Kieth unless I pay attention.