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Re: BIG BAD ON Conlang T-Shirt WEBPAGE

From:Don Blaheta <dpb@...>
Date:Wednesday, November 3, 1999, 1:03
Quoth Sally Caves:
> How do you pronounce Volapu"k anyway? Genuinely curious. I try, > and it comes out Vola puke. <G>
About like you'd expect, /vo.la.pyk/. But note that {v} was originally pronounced /w/; the name of the language means "world language" or "world speak". Nifty, eh? -- -=-Don Blaheta-=-=-dpb@cs.brown.edu-=-=-<http://www.cs.brown.edu/~dpb/>-=- Jesus was *at least* a 16th level cleric.