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  • Did Gandhi have a lisp?

    From Tilde@21:1/5 to Dr. Jai Maharaj on Sat Dec 29 21:08:38 2018
    XPost: soc.culture.india, alt.usage.english, alt.english.usage
    XPost: sci.lang

    Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote:
    In sci.lang and alt.usage.english, in article
    ranjit_...@yahoo.com" <ranjit_...@yahoo.com> posted:

    Did Gandhi have a lisp?
    Gandhi speaking to a European audience. . . .


    Well this is an old thread. 2010!

    Original post:

    https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/alt.usage.english/hpeqYnVNVlk/F6GQVsiJwdwJ

    From: "ranjit_...@yahoo.com"

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlJ00KvsHuQ&feature=related

    Is his /s/ realized as a [T], as a certain observer claims?

    *****
    That's a short clip of him speaking, here is a longer one, six minutes,
    from Oct 1931 (what is the date of the other clip up above?)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElixqbRw4g4

    Gandhi was multi lingual and English was not his first language. Recording quality seems good and I can't detect a lisp (YMMV).

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?Ant=C3=B3nio=20Marques?=@21:1/5 to Tilde on Sun Dec 30 11:54:03 2018
    XPost: sci.lang, soc.culture.india, alt.usage.english
    XPost: alt.english.usage

    Tilde <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:

    Well this is an old thread. 2010!

    Yes, and it's considered poor form / vandalism replying to old threads.

    Tho since it's from Dr Jaj whatever, the harm is in reproducing her stuff rather than in defacing the thread.

    And stuff should be properly quoted so as to allow knowing who wrote what.
    It's not hard, the programs even do it by default.

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