Re: "real" names in Chevraqis

> 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.

> Yoon Ha Lee =
Yun Ha Li  (pron. exactly the same!)

> Christophe Grandsire
Karistof Garandasair
(Ooh, "Garandasair" sounds great, I'll have to steal it for one of my
stories.)

> Sally Caves
Sali Kévas

> Dan Sulani
Dan Sulani (totally unchanged)

> Dan Seriff
Dan Serif (also rather unchanged)

> 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."  ;-)

> Taliesin = Taraíesin
Taliésin, assuming pronounciation [tali'ezIn]

> Marcus Smith
Markus Samith

> Jonathan Chang
Danathin Ten

> Nicole Perrin
Nikol Perin (not much changed, alas)

> Apologies to those who were included and didn't want to be, and those who
> weren't included and might've wanted to have been.  (Teoh, I can't even
> guess how your name is pronounced....)
>
> YHL
>
Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu
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