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Re: Mispronouncing Conlang Names

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Thursday, April 14, 2005, 7:41
Quoting Geoff Horswood <geoffhorswood@...>:

> On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 13:01:04 +0200, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> > wrote: > > >Hi! > > > >"David J. Peterson" <dedalvs@...> writes: > >>... > >> a lot of conlang names, I've noticed. Here's a short list (and > >> feel free to add) in alphabetical order: > > > >Do you also have a nice mispronunciation of Qthyn|gai? :-) > > > I'm probably way out with this one. /q@'TIn.|\|\.gaj/ Sorry. > > What about Xinkutlan? > > Noygwexaal? (if the phonology wasn't posted too recently)
I've been thinking of those as [Sin'kUt.lan] and [noj.gwe'Sa:l].
> >> -amman îar: > >>... > >> most saliently pronounced by as ['A.mAn i.'Ar], where the last > >>... > > > >I did worse: [?a'mam ?i'jar]... > > /'&m.m&n i'jar/ With an embarrassing English-style /&/ /a/ conflation. :P
[a'man ja:r], boringly.
> >> -Brithenig: ... > > > >Embarrasingly: ['brIT@nIN] > > I think I got this one right
[br`Ith.E'NIg]
> > > >> -Kangathyagon: ... > > I kept wanting to insert a /b/ in it, before I worked out that the thorn > was /T/. Then I conflated the 2 together: /kaN.ba'Tja:.gon/ ;)
[kaN.ga.Tja'gOn]
> >> -Miapimoquitch: ... > > > >Same: no pronunciation before finding out the right way to say it. > > I'm still not sure I have this right! /mi.ap'im.o.kwItS/?
[,mi:.a.pi.mo'kwitS]
> >> -Rokbeigalmki: ... > > > >No problem at all. > > Really? I see this one and the order of letters in it just jumbles up in > my head. I still want to say /rO.kI.bE'gal.mi:/ I seem to do this a lot > with words over a certain size. I wonder why?
[,r`Ok.bEj'galm.ki]
> >> -Teonaht: ... > > > >Similar to yours: ['te.o.nat]. Forgive me. > > /'te.o.naht/
[,te:.o'naxt] Andreas

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