Re: At last, an 'official' (but far from complete) page on Tech

Henrik Theiling wrote:
>Thanks for all the clarifications.  I never heard a Czech r-caron, so I
>should probably try to find some docu and sound files.
>> > Can you pronounce that language fluently? :-)
Yeah, Czech r-caron is the sound that defeats me.  I had a Czech native
pronounce it for me when I visited Prague several years ago.  Imagine
a 'trilled retroflex z-sound.' Very "buzzy."  I can pronounce it in
isolation on the 2nd or 3rd try, but not consistently within a word.

>[snip] As I mentioned in other postings, I (thought I) managed to pronounce
>all ~800 phonemes of my S4 between two [a]s, but it was impossible to
>pronounce even the shortest word.  Even with the much simpler S7, I am
>an deep trouble.  However, I see light at the end of the tunnel of S7.
>Hopefully I can manage that, I regularly dream of sound samples of
>conlang texts on my website.
Should be fun practicing Tech phrases and sentences when they're posted.
Nothing like wrapping the ol' tongue around a labialized uvular ejective
affricate!  (By the way, as for sound files, I've just finished recording
and should have them added to the Ithkuil site in the next week or two.)

> [snip]
>I am frightened after having caught a glimpse of a description of
>Georgian verbs...
Not to mention Abkhaz and Ubykh verbs -- they're what gave me the whole
idea of the approach to Ithkuil in the first place!

--John Q.