Re: Con-scripts

 >And while we're about it, how exactly do you pronouce it? I tend to
> >pronounce 'shr' as a kind of retroflex /S/.
>
> Hmm.... I think it's intended to be /'Srej@s/, where the r is the
Where does the /j/ fall? (I.e, diphthongal or not?)

> English retroflex r,
best described as the American retroflex r, the brits saying it differently
from the you guys, and aussies saying one or the other (as far as i can
say).

> but I tend to say it with /E/, and sometimes elide
> the /@/.  A
> lot of people seem to hear /tr/ for that /Sr/ cluster, for one reason or
> another.
and then people whant to move the /tr/ of my name (tristan) to /kr/,
thinking i'm Christian*, does anyone with /#kr/ get people thinking their
/Sr/?

Tristan

*and then I want to kill them. And if they call me Tristian, i want to kill
them, and if they call me Tris, i want to kill them, and if they my surname
is McLeary, i want to kill them, and if they think ist McLeahy, I want to
kill them. And if they think its... (my family has rather homicidal
tendencies with name, my sister, Emilly, will kill anyone who calls here Emy
or skips one l, frinstance)
The strangest warping i've had is Nguyen... (and i'm not asian)

Tris*TAN*-like-in-train-and-with-one-eye Alexander (no-one ever gets *that*
one wrong)
McLeay-m-c-l-no,-no-a,-yes-m-*C*-no,-not-to-Cs-l-e-a-no,-e-after-the-l-no,-t
here-is-an-a-before-the-y. dammit, why don't I just my name to a glyph, like
prince did? you can't spell a glyph wrong now, can ya?

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