Re: Etabnannery, no Maggelity (long)

----- Original Message -----
From: TRISTAN

> Sally Caves wrote:
> > So YOU'RE the culprit, Tristan!  :)
>
> Of course ;)
>
> > Does RRRRRRamnunari have a language
>
> That u doesn't make sense. The vowel there is essentially the same as
> the one in 'cat' in Australian and American English. (I'm assuming
> you're trying to spell 'etabnannery'.)
I'm trying to PRONOUNCE it, Tristan.  But I need an accurate pronunciation.
The culprit for me is not enough familiarity with all the varieties of
SAMPA.  I read your & as a @ originally, which explains my "ramnunari," "u"
standing in for the heavy "uh" sound of English.  I also mark stress with an
apostrophe.  I don't understand your symbology below very well, with the 2s.

> > it's attached to?  A web site?  Where does the emPHASis go in the word?
>
> Of course: Etabnanni /ra:2mn&2n/ 2=low tone. In Etabnanni, the stress
> always falls on the first syllable of a word, but in the English word
> etabnannery, the second syllable
It's an English word?

So /ram'n&nri/.  rahm NAN ree.


(or third if you evilly pronounce the
> > initial e-)
No.  But curious about it.  It seems more etabnanneric to leave it out.
Unless you have a really unusual and unintuitive pronunciation for "e."

> gets the stress. There is no website. As I've either just
> explained or am about to badly explain in another email I've either sent
> or haven't yet, there isn't really a grammar to Etabnanni.
All I'm after is the rules of pronunciation.

As far as I can tell, the only etabnanneric aspect of this particular word
is the pronunciations of "t" as "r."
Correct?  "bn" as "m" I can understand; that makes some sense.  I'd be
curious to see some orthographic rules.  Someday.


Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net
Eskkoat ol ai sendran, rohsan nuehra celyil takrem bomai nakuo.
"My shadow follows me, putting strange, new roses into the world."

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