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Re: USAGE: [CONLANG] A BrSc a? & Nyuu Romaji

From:Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>
Date:Sunday, April 21, 2002, 18:24
At 7:15 pm +0100 20/4/02, And Rosta wrote:
>John Cowan: >> Levi Tooker scripsit: >> >> > "Burma" BAAMA (yes, I know it's MIIAENMAR now :), and >> >> I can't quite tell if you realize that "Myanmar" is pronounced ['b@m@]. > >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. ====================== XRICTOC ANECTH ======================

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