Theiling Online    Sitemap    Conlang Mailing List HQ   

Re: þe getisbyrg adres

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Tuesday, August 3, 2004, 18:47
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 04:20:51PM -0400, Steg Belsky wrote:
> Please don't! > > It doesn't look like an American dialect, and it's confusing me! :P > |mezýr|, seemingly /mEzjur\/, for 'measure' /mEZ@r\/? > And |ný| /nju/ for 'new'? I can barely *pronounce* that, let alone use > it in everyday speech! ;)
Really? Hunh. Not too many years ago maintaining the [j] in such words was considered a mark of erudition. I especially recall that saying [tuzd*] instead of [tjuzd*] for the weekday (the * could be either [ej] or [i] and isn't the part in question) marked one as an uneducated philistine. I know that is no longer the case, but has it become so rare that some folks can't even pronounce the glide? Fascinating. -Marcos

Reply

Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>