Re: CHAT: Conlang and Writers

Steg Belsky wrote:

> The story took place in Burup 'Ak ['burUp ?ak] (Boro Park) in a
> post-apocalyptic future.
ROTFL!

This reminds me of H. P. Lovecraft, who liked to put his friends'
names into his weird fiction:

        Robert (Bob) Bloch -> Bho-Blok
        Clark Ashton Smith -> Klarkash-Ton

One of them returned the favor by introducing the character
"Luveh-keraphf", where the final cluster (obConlang) is interesting ---
it seems to be an aspirated labial affricate.  Chinese (pinyin) "c"
is the only other aspirate affricate that comes to mind.

If "ph" = /f/, then it might just be a geminated spirant [ff], but
"ph" and "th" in Lovecraft are usually aspirates, as in "Nyarlathotep"
[njar 'lat ho tEp] and "Cthulhu" ['kthu Lu].

--
John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
        You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
        You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
                Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)