Re: Mispronouncing Conlang Names

hahaha,
yes, ABCD-an is a favorite mispronunciation of mine.
And worry not, your pronunciation of Silindion
is...unfortunately fairly accurate.

The Neste pronounce their language /sIlI'ndjon/. I
however tend to pronounce it /sI'lindion/, somewhat
like you I suppose.

 ~Elliott

--- Muke Tever <hotblack@...> wrote:
> David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...> wrote:
> > I recently posted Barry Garcia's translation of
> the Sheli poem
> > into Ayhan on my site, and I noticed, after
> pasting his link in,
> > that I'd been incorrectly spelling the language as
> "Ahyan".
> > Why?  Because that's actually how I'd been
> *pronouncing* it
> > (in my head) all this time.  And, indeed, I
> actually mispronounce
> > a lot of conlang names, I've noticed.
>
> The ones that stick most in my mind, unable to be
> removed, are
> probably /m{Ngl/ [Maggel], ABCD-an [Ebisedian], and
> Celine
> Dion [Silindion].
>
>
> 	*Muke!
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