Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!osu-cis!tut!paul From: paul@tut.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.ai,sci.lang Subject: Re: Language Learning (anecdotes) Message-ID: <2359@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: Sat, 28-Nov-87 14:03:28 EST Article-I.D.: tut.2359 Posted: Sat Nov 28 14:03:28 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 2-Dec-87 03:23:30 EST References: <1966@uwmacc.UUCP> <12400009@iuvax> <1117@uhccux.UUCP> <2059@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <1786@culdev1.UUCP> Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer and Information Science Lines: 13 Xref: utgpu comp.ai:1111 sci.lang:1638 In article <1786@culdev1.UUCP> yg@culdev1.UUCP (Yogesh Gupta) writes: < In article <2059@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, paul@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Paul W. Placeway) writes: < > and R (ie. Asian) don't distinguish them. < ^^^^^ < I guess THIS was the reason for my previous objection - why is it that < it is assumed that languages in Asia do not differentiate between an L < and an R? Ah. I seem to have been caught with dangling assumptions. Actually, the only far eastern (near western?) language that I know doesn't distinguish L & R is Japaneese. Sorry about that... -- Paul