On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, jesse stephen bangs wrote:
> > I felt bored and wanted to mangle-ate names....
>
> Neat! Let me try:
>
> Yivrindil allows no initial consonant clusters and no clusters of more
> than two elements unless the final element is -y-, and no clusters of
> the same type of element (i.e. no stop+stop or fricative+fricative). So
> most of these names require lots of mangling. The normal epinthetic vowel
> is -a-, used to avoid violating these conventions.
I used whether vowel sounded closest. :-p
> > Yoon Ha Lee =
> Yun Ha Li (pron. exactly the same!)
<wry g> My name is horribly boring. I did go through a 6-year-old phase
when I wished my name was "Becky" but I'm not sure where I got it from
and I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have been an improvement. (It's a
perfectly fine name, I'm just too used to being a Yoon!)
> > Christophe Grandsire
> Karistof Garandasair
> (Ooh, "Garandasair" sounds great, I'll have to steal it for one of my
> stories.)
[snip]
> > Dirk Elzinga
> If I follow the orthography I get "Dirk Elsinga" where {ng} = [Ng], but if
> it's pronounced [d.Rk El'ziN@] as I do, then it would be understood as
> "Dark Elsína" Another excellent story name: " 'The Dark Elsína is rising
> in the north,' said the wizard Garandasair gravely." ;-)
ROFL!
YHL