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Torsten Poulin <t_usenet_drop@hotmail.com> writes:

> Wiktor S. skrev:
> 
> >> Baa ! Baaaaa ! Baaaaa ! Ba Ba Ba !
> 
> > That must be some anglicized spelling. The sheeps I know don't
> > understand this. Perhaps because they speak the "mee mee"
> > dialect.
> 
> The ones around here say both "mæh" and "bæh". They used to say
> "mæ" and "bæ" as well, but their vocabulary has been reduced by
> the language council. Still, what is left should be enough for
> something along the lines of Morse code.

In England the attested form is [meh] but we shall adduce extensive
empirical evidence to justify our proposal that the underlying lexical
form is /baa/ - in striking agreement, once again, with the standard
orthography.

Des
is so very 1968
-- 
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and Hegelian versions." -- Roman Jakobson