Re: Mispronouncing Conlang Names

Despite corresponding with Sally and perusing her website and examining the 
script with an eye toward font creation etc etc, "Teonaht" continues to be 
something like ['t_hej.@,nat] in my head. Hopefully, if I ever have the 
opportunity to speak about it out loud, I'll fix it "in post", as it were, 
before it makes it all the way out of my mouth. :)


On 4/13/05, 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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