Fascinating! /q/ is a much less common sound cross linguistically than /k/, so you'd expect it to be harder to pronounce. There being enough people who have trouble with /k/ and use /q/ instead that there's a word for it is quite surprising.
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Fascinating! /q/ is a much less common sound cross linguistically than /k/, so you'd expect it to be harder to pronounce. There being enough people who have trouble with /k/ and use /q/ instead that there's a word for it is quite surprising.
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I was tring to bring back some order to my bookshelves yesterday afternoon, and as it usually happens, I stopped working because I started browsing the books I was supposedly moving around to clear some space.
From a box of assorted langage books popped out a small wonder I thought lost forever: my own copy of the Central Asia Phrasebook, by Lonely Planet.
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