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Most recent insane fixation I was thinking of sharing: A language with monosyllabic roots, like Chinese, in exclusively CV form, but without tone. And easy to pronounce (for me). This plus nasality contrast gives 1302 syllables, comparable to Mandarin (with tonal contrasts!)
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Friend is on a trip across central Europe and mentioned how he's embarrassed by the fact that he can recognize other Americans in restaurants and public places just from the sound of their voice—not even the volume or the words, just the completely American vocal quality
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I love the various Native American place names around Buffalo—Niagara, Cheektowaga, Lackawanna—and I lived about two minutes away from Tonawanda for years. A humble yet charming neighborhood. Here's some of my pics of Tonawanda (the city and the town) and North Tonawanda
I once saw Aretha Franklin in Lewiston, NY and she went on a tangent about visiting Tonawanda, a Buffalo suburb
“Tonawanda, Tonawanda—what a beautiful name. I want to live in To-na-WANDA”
(Nobody has ever, in fact, said this about Tonawanda)
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