Re: [wEr\ Ar\ ju: fr6m] ?
From: | Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, November 7, 2001, 7:39 |
City: ["m{_r5b@n] Melbourne ([%m{_r5b3\:n@j@n], Melburnian (no -o-) or
["m{_r5b@nait], Melbournite)
State: [vIk"tO:ri@] Victoria ([vIk"tO:ri@n], Victorian)
Country: [Qz] Oz or [@"str&_rilj@] or [-&_rj@] or [Q-] or [-l_j-] or [-i@]
Australia ([Qzi] Aussie or [-n] Australian)
(At least in this neck of the woods. I have heard people from Western Oz
using 'Aussie' as the name of the country, but that's highly *-worthy to me.)
Tristan
At 08.17 p.m. 6.11.2001 -0800, Frank George Valoczy wrote:
>On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Herman Miller wrote:
>
> > For those of us who are borrowing place names from what the people who live
> > there call them (which I might still do for Ludiréo, although probably not
> > for Tirèlhat), I thought it might be cool to make a list of phonetic
> > transcriptions of the home towns of Conlang list members. Feel free to
> > include the names of nearby places.
> >
> > City: Ann Arbor [{n"Ar\br\=]
> > County: Washtenaw ["wQSt@nQ:]
> > State: Michigan ["mISIg@n]
> > Country: USA [ju:Es"eI] (a.k.a. America [@"mEr\Ik@], United States
> > [ju"nAI4@d "steIts], US [ju:"Es])
> >
>
>Well, I'm from
>
>[v&:INkU@vr\] = Vancouver
>
>[br\I4@Skl=6mbij6] = British Columbia
>
>[k&:n=d6] = Canada
>
>---frank