Re: CHAT: silly names

There is no vowel sound in it. K->Rolled R->K

Just as difficult as getting my last name correctly. You have to glide right
from the H to the L. The mouth of an English speaker can't handle those
consonants together.

In Czech, there is a whole tongue twister without any vowels in it.


Strc prz skrz krk.

There is a hacek over the c.


Try that one on for size.
Scott Hlad


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU]On
> Behalf Of Tristan McLeay
> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 5:03 PM
> To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
> Subject: Re: CHAT: silly names
>
>
> Robert Hailman wrote:
>
> >>                                             Andreas
> >>
> >> PS Speaking of weird place-names, the Argentine ones _Cauaiauaia_ and
> >> _Uoiauai_ are pretty good too. Croatian _Krk_ is quite okay too.
> >
> >
> > "Krk"? How'd that be pronounced? I'm thinkin' syllablic r, but I can't
> > remember how to represent that in ASCII-IPA.
>
> AFAIK, it is /krik/, or similar. But I could be wrong.
>
> Tristan
>
>
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