Re: UVW (was: Lingo)

On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 23:45, Muke Tever wrote:
> From: "Steg Belsky" <draqonfayir@...>
> >Muke Tever <alrivera@...> writes:
> >> ObConlang:
> >> Ibran for "There is a wild dog in my trousers":
> >> "C'êt un chàn seuvauge dént miens pantålounes..."
> >> ["tSEt: E~"Z&~zEvwOdZ dEnT m_jin:"pA~tlun:]
> >
> >In the word "seuvauge", the sequence |uv| is pronounced [vw]?  That's
> >pretty cool... how does it work like that?
>
> Not quite :\   It's worse than that, actually.
>
> The sequence |eu| is pronounced [E].  (it being from a former front-rounded
> vowel)
> |v| is pronounced, unexcitingly, [v] here.
> |au| is pronounced [wO].  (it goes: [AU] > [o:] > [wO])
>
> Hmm, but still, |uva| gets pronounced [vw], which is aspiring to Maggelity (or
> maybe just Etabnannery?)right there...  (right next to |un| being [E~], which
Yay! My language is famous! We clearly need new words in the dictionary:

Maggelity /m@gE:lIti/ (noun) The state of being entirely unpredictable.
[from _Maggel_ a constructed language by Christophe Grandsire, which had
an unpredictable orthography +_ity_]

Etabnannery /r@mn{n@ri/ (noun) The state of appearing entirely
unpredictable, but, upon closer analysis, failing at even being that.
[from _Etábnanni_ a constructed language by Tristan McLeay, which was
*supposed* to have an unpredictable orthography, but ended up just
having a confusing one. Damn people trying to make patterns everywhere.
At least it's a bugger to typeset!... err... back to the derivation
+_ery_]

There we go, now we just have to convince people to use them enough. Do
you think they'd be included in a dictionary if even just some
conlangers used them often enough? Or would they decide just that our
words were merely slang and not worth of dictionarifying?

> I
> quite like..., and "foot" vs. "feet" is |pey| vs. |peyes| on paper, but [pe]
> vs.
> [pjV] in your mouth... I liked |cour| being [kwV] in the last exercise, its
> plural is [kuXr]!)
I like your language too. (You get the idea it's not that hard for me to
like a language, do you? Maybe I have to put in better standards.)

> And *this* is why Ibran cries for spelling reform...
No, never! Bizarre spellings must survive for all time! Aeternity, even!
(No, no-one spells it 'aeternity'. But (a) it's a bizarre spelling and
(b) it looks even longer than merely 'eternity', at least to me, so I
use it.)

Tristan.

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