Re: Another question about language naming

From: "Herman Miller" <hmiller@...>
> On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 17:32:57 -0000, And Rosta <a.rosta@...> wrote:
>
> >Yes to the last question. When I first met a conlang friend in the flesh
> >he was surprised to find that _Livagian_ was pronounced /l@'vEIdZn/ and
> >not [livagian].
>
> Well I'd have been half right: for some reason I've been thinking of it as
> /lI'veIgi@n/.
I had /lI'v{dZi@n/.

English-esque language name markers (-ese, -ian, -ish) usually set off
English-esque pronunciation I guess.

    *Muke!
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