Re: Slaying the monster
| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, August 3, 2002, 18:57 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 11:12 AM
Subject: Re: Slaying the monster
> On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 10:57:02AM -0700, Clint Jackson Baker wrote:
> > |gdhmabgis| 9 letters
<g> - silent
<d> - well...[d], obviously
<h> - fricativises the following consonant, which loses the nasal and
changes slightly, to produce [v]
<m> - see above.
<a> - is changed by <bg>
<bg> -lifts and puts forward the previous vowel, possibly also lengthening
it.
<i> - well, <i> is often [I]
<s> - [z] on a final
Well, that's my take on it
therefore, I'd guess a made up word:
<gbhdobgas>
would be pronounced:
/bDI:az/
I'm probably wrong, but it could be...
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