Re: REQUEST: How to Pronounce Your Conlang's Name
| From: | Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 30, 2005, 21:07 |
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Keith Gaughan wrote:
> Brasaelig
> [bra'ze:lic], or as I end up pronouncing it, [b4&'ze:lIc].
> If you're saying it, say it kinda like you're the Swedish Chef.
>
Haha!! Actually, if one wants to give a conlang a REALLY non-SAE feeling,
have the stressed syllable _drop_ in intonation. I think that's the secret
of good parody-Scandanavian. And I believe some Italian speakers do it too.
In Indonesian classes years ago, the textbook and tapes dealt briefly with
Jakarta dialect-- it also featured low-tone stressed syllables, which is
utterly counter-intuitive, for English speakers at least.
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