Re: My name in Rokbeigalmki, and my ideas for shorthand/code/etc...

On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 00:46:50 -0500 "Daniel A. Wier" <dawier@...>
writes:
> On Sun, 15 Oct 2000 20:34:38 -0400 Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
> writes:
> > Okay, even though i was left out of the name list, here's my
> > Rokbeigalmki
> > take on you-all's names:
> Mine got left out, but I was netless for a while and had to unsub
> for a
> while.  Can I guess what mine might be?
>
> Danny Wier /d&:ni: wI@R/ (R is supposed to be the retroflex glide?)
> Rokbeigalmki (?): Déní Wihgh
> DaW.
-

hmmm...
Dááni Wír
/d&:ni wi:r/
(/r/ = tap)

Names (unless they're really long) can only have one accented (and
therefore lengthened) vowel.  Rokbeigalmki's only R sound is the
dental/alveolar tap/flap, and the retroflex glide is much closer to that
than to /G/ {GH}.  The reason i used that for Christophe's name is
because the French R is closer to /G/ than to /r/ (flap/tap).  The
accented {AA} is a single vowel, [&], lengthened by stress.  The
Rokbeigalmki {IH} /I/ is high and central, if i'm pronouncing Wier
correctly it sounds much closer to the Rokbeigalmki {I} /i/.

Déní Wihgh would be pronounced /dE:ni: wIG/.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "can't think of a sig"