Re: Name mangling (Was: Re: First Sound Recording of Asha'ille!)

Quoting Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>:

> Hi!
>
> Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> writes:
> > This is getting fun. Kash has trouble with clusters, plain voiced stops,
> odd
> > vowels, schwa, etc. But voiceless stops are unasp. and semi-voiced in any
> > case. Generally the simplest strategy is to borrow the Spanish form....
> >
> > > Henrik -> hendrik ['xEndrik] sorry about the -d-, but even historical
> > > *-nr- ends up [-ndr-]; Span. Enrique > endrike
>
> Grrr! :-) Nonono!
>
> This typical -nr- -> -ndr- is for *alveolar* /r/ only.
> My /r/ is uvular!  Please try again for ['hEnRIk].
>
> Remove the cluster, do anything, but don't insert -d-.  I will not
> listen if called anything with -ndr- .
I suppose you could be _Chen-Ghoic_ [xen.Gwik] in Meghean if you like that
better than _Chen-Ric_ [xen.rik]. There's no way you get anything uvular!

                                                          Andreas