Re: Name of my conlang
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 22, 2002, 4:50 |
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On 21 May 02, at 7:32, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 07:04:48AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
> > On 20 May 02, at 14:20, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> >
> > > Ebisedian.
> >
> > A-B-C-D-an?
>
> LOL, that's a good one :-)
Is that not the derivation of the word? It seemed so obvious to me, as
if you had meant it.
> But the "proper" pronunciation, at least as far as a native speaker
> is concerned, is [&bisV:'di@n]. (The stress on the 3rd syllable is
> from the original word, _3bis33'di_. Pity I can't send email in
> LaTeX; the ASCII orthography is looking uglier by the minute :-P )
If it's stressed on the third syllable, do you mean [&bi"sV:di@n]? The
stress mark in both X-SAMPA and Kirshenbaum ASCII IPA comes *before*
the stressed syllable.
Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...>
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