Re: interestin' gamelang?: Cuotl from 'Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends'

Eric Christopherson wrote:
> On Apr 23, 2007, at 7:15 AM, Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
>
>> On 19.4.2007 Eric Christopherson wrote:
[snip]

>>> Why /L\_w=/? I would think it should be pronounced /V_0/ :)
>>
>>
>> The reference is to the Swedish letter Å which is /o:/ rather than
>>  to IPA.  Non-Scandinavian fans are wont to write STARGÅTE, which
>> is also how the sign is used in the logo for the show.
>
>
> Oh... well that much I got, but I still don't see where /L\_w=/ comes
>  from.
>
>> To us it is of course silly, since the cognate of _gate_ is _gata_
>>  'street', which has /A:/, coming from a short /a/ in Common
>> Scandinavian.  The associaton with Greek Lambda is of course my
>> own,
Which, surely, explains the lateral approximant.

I understood Philip to be using a jocular 'portmanteau' pronunciation,
amalgamating, so to speak, Swedish Å and Greek Λ - that is , a combo of
After all, the symbol concerned is *not* an upper-case Swedish Å, but an
upper-case Greek lambda with a small circle above it, see:
http://stargate.mgm.com/

A syllabic rounded velar approximant  [L\_w=]  seems a fair enough result
to me.

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