▲ 920 ▼ Nobody dare Pluto Pterodactyl (fanaticus.social) submitted 2 years ago by PitchPlease@fanaticus.social to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world 24 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) The languages I'm most familiar with are quite closely related to English, so I don't think that's really the case. Actually, one thing I can think of is that English trends to aspirate initial stops, which probably makes those clusters harder to pronounce permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] hakase@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago Unless you're talking about Scots, the closest languages to English are separated by at minimum more than a thousand years, which is plenty of time for those constraints to change significantly. I'd even expect different dialects of English to behave differently when adapting loanwords, because they already show plenty of phonotactic differentiation. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] hakase@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago Unless you're talking about Scots, the closest languages to English are separated by at minimum more than a thousand years, which is plenty of time for those constraints to change significantly. I'd even expect different dialects of English to behave differently when adapting loanwords, because they already show plenty of phonotactic differentiation. permalink fedilink source parent
