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U.S. caught in a conundrum
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14/08/2008 10:32:13
 
 
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13/08/2008 22:22:41
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
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>>>>>>>>The invasion occurred after 12 UN resolutions failed.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Meanwhile, Israel was occupied five times.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I think I made that point somewhere here in this thread...
>>>>>
>>>>>I'm reading sequentially. Limitation of the mind...
>>>>
>>>>Most of the analysts are saying that what Russia REALLY wants is Ukrane.
>>>
>>>It's spelled ukraIne.
>>
>>Ukralne! Roger that.
>
>Good!
>
>Except that's an i, i.e. Ukraine (if it looked like an L, screw Arial. I hate the bastard. It was an uppercase i, for emphasis, which looked OK in Courier, which I also don't like).
>
> Next task. Learn to pronounce Gruziya (that's how Georgia calls itself, I presume), and Tbilisi (note that the impossible initial TB is not impossible when a whole nation can pronounce it). Find Gruzian web radio or whatever to hear the sound.

Because it is not pronounced tb... it is pronounced ti or tə?

http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?ggtbil01.wav=Tbilisi
or (alternate):
http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?ggtbil02.wav=Tiflis

Main Entry: Tbi·li·si
Pronunciation: \tə-ˈbē-lə-sē, tə-bə-ˈlē-sē\
Variant(s): or Tif·lis \ˈti-fləs, tə-ˈflēs\
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