Re: You might be a conlanger if...

On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 05:11:46PM -0800, bob thornton wrote:
> --- Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
>
> > Quoting "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...>:
> >
> > > *When you get a cold, you make jokes like, "I've
> > discovered the
> > > aspirated glottal stop!"
> > >
> > > *You actually found the previous item funny.
> >
> > Damn you! How do you think I learnt to produce
> > pharyngeals? It's not funny!
> >
> >
> > Andreas
> >
>
> ...I dont understand. I am so confused. Could I get
> some help with this?
[...]

"Aspirated" means pronounced with a puff of air (like initial /t/,
/p/, and /k/ in English). Normally, the glottal stop is unaspirated;
but when you have a bad case of sore throat, you tend to pronounce it
with lots of aspiration. Sometimes with mucus, as well. ;-)


T

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