Re: Mispronouncing Conlang Names

--- Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
> Quoting Muke Tever <hotblack@...>:
>
> > 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].
>
> Aak. I'll never be able to think of Eliott's
> masterpiece in the same way again.
> :(
>
>
> ;)
Worry not sir, as  I told Muke, I too pronounce it
unfortunately close to Celine Dion. The Neste speakers
have a slightly different stress for the word, so it
doesn't technically sound like that.

~Elliott

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