Re: CHAT: Happy Conlang day!
| From: | Tristan Alexander McLeay <zsau@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 19, 2001, 12:49 |
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At 10:14 PM 19/07/2001, you wrote:
>Tristan Alexander McLeay scripsit:
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> > The word is Aussie (or Anyaussie, if you insist on forgetting spaces).
>
>I was punning on "anyone" (which historically is "any one", to be sure),
>but I accept your spelling correction. Perhaps I should have written
>"Anyozite", though that suggests /'&n you zait/.
I realised that you missed the space on purpose. Hence the parenthetical
remark. And i would've said that 'Anyozite' suggested /"Eni,Qzait/, which
is, I guess, what you mean.
(the voicing of the double s is a completely regular phononemon, cf 'arvo',
Afternoon)
Tristan
zsau@yahoo.com.au
http://redaxe.au.tt/