Re: CHAT: Happy Conlang day!

John Cowan wrote:

> > >>>Which reminds me: how is the name of Groote Eylandt in
> > >>>Australia pronounced?  It is indeed a large island.
> > >>
> > >> Boudewijn says: Just like you spell it. That is
> > >> ["GR\o:t@ "E1lAnt_h].
> > >
> > >I knew some smartass Dutchman was going to make a remark like
> > >that. But did he catch the Nixon in China reference,
> > >hmmmmmmmmmm?
> >
> > Yes, yes, yes.  But I thought you were posing the far more interesting
> > question:  how do Australians pronounce it?
>
> Indeed, I was.  Anyozzie?
This is a big country, and I'm not going to say how to pronounce the name
of some island that's not even remotely in my vicinity :-)

But mentioning Australia, I do think anyone interested in language and
culture would get a lot of milage out of the ARDS website
<http://www.ards.com.au> (but it's a pity they use arbitrary symbols
like "`" or "]" to represent characters not supported in ASCII), and
even more so out of the associated book. It has some very insightful
and well-illustrated things to say about the breakdown of communication
between cultures, the tragedies this causes, and the process of solving
them (I'm willing to negotiate ways to help interested parties get a
copy of the book, if they want one and need such assistance).

Table of contents at <http://www.ards.com.au/warriorscontents.htm>.
Distribution list at <http://www.ards.com.au/distlist.htm>

Adrian.

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