Re: USAGE: [CONLANG] A BrSc a? & Nyuu Romaji
| From: | Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 21, 2002, 18:24 |
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At 7:15 pm +0100 20/4/02, And Rosta wrote:
>John Cowan:
>> Levi Tooker scripsit:
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>> > "Burma" BAAMA (yes, I know it's MIIAENMAR now :), and
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>> I can't quite tell if you realize that "Myanmar" is pronounced ['b@m@].
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>Not by Brit journos it isn't.
But they're not known for their skill in pronouncing foreign names. John
means that's how the Burmese word transliterated as {myanmar} is pronounced
by the Burmese, whose spelling conventions seem to rival those Christophe
is proposing for his current conlang :)
{Burma} was the way the unrhotic Brits of the Indian Raj recorded the name
when they heard it pronounced (they had no inclination to learn the Burmese
script :)
Ray.
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