"Essiness, Ishiness, Veeiness, Aitchiness & /X/"
From: | Jonathan Knibb <jonathan_knibb@...> |
Date: | Monday, March 11, 2002, 1:56 |
Clint Jackson Baker wrote:
>>>
I always wondered what /X/ was. Thanks! I've been
sitting here saying it--what a cool sound, like a
contented kitten. [...]
<<<
I think you may be the first person to describe any national characteristic
of the Germans as 'like a contented kitten'...
(Das [X] habe ich doX sehr gern. :) )
ObConlang: I might even consider putting it in as an allophone of /x/
in Telona.
Jonathan.
'O dear white children casual as birds,
Playing among the ruined languages...'
W. H. Auden, 'Hymn to St. Cecilia'