Re: Mispronouncing Conlang Names
| From: | Dirk Elzinga <dirk.elzinga@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, April 13, 2005, 17:47 |
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On 4/13/05, David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...> wrote:
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> -Miapimoquitch: "Tepa" was a whole lot simpler. I did something
> strange to this name, pronouncing it something like, [mi.'am.p@.kwItS],
> but sometimes without the coda [m], and sometimes (possibly under
> the influence of the Simpsons), as [mi.'a.p@.m@.kwItS].
This is really funny. The name _Miapimoquitch_ is itself an
Anglicization of a Southern Paiute original, which would have been
pronounced [mi'a?pp1"mo:kk_wI?tS]. I pronounce it (on those rare
occasions when I get to pronounce it out loud) as [mi"&pi"moUkwItS].
While Tepa (['t1Ba]) may have been simpler to pronounce, too many
people were led astray by the romanization and pronounced it
['t_hEpa], which really grated on me.
Dirk
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