Re: Mispronouncing Conlang Names

-- "David J. Peterson" <dedalvs@...> wrote:

-Rokbeigalmki: Whenever I see that many consonants, my head
kind of starts swimming, so I stopped at "rokbei", and then kind
of made up my own name, [rAg.bA.'jA.ni].  I've *always* pronounced
it that way (in my head), and it wasn't until a few months ago
when I actually looked at the spelling and said to myself, "Man,
I was *way* off!"

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I'm so proud!  ;)

You could just shorten it like my brother does, and call it "Rokbei" or "Rokvei" [rok(b/v)ej].

Rokbeigalmki is meant to be pronounced [rokbej'galm(=)ki], (with optional syllabicness of
the /m/) btw.

"*Ragbayani" looks cool though... maybe i'll make it a word in Rokbeigalmki, meaning
"mistake in reading" or something :) ... or use it as the last name of an RPG
character!


I'm frightened to find out how people've been pronouncing the name of my first
conlang (made with my brother), _ool-Nuziiferoi_ 8-O ;-) !



-Stephen (Steg)
 "here in this transport
  i am eve
  with abel my son
  if you see my older son
  cain son of man
  tell him that i"
     ~ dan pagis, 'written in pencil in the sealed freightcar'