Re: Zero-ness

On Wed, 9 Aug 2000 12:52:04 -0500 "Thomas R. Wier"
<artabanos@...> writes:
> bjm10@CORNELL.EDU wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Vasiliy Chernov wrote:
> >
> > > "Nihilar"?  :)
> > >
> > > (Don't ask me how to pronounce this in English)
> >
> > It would end up being something like /ni:-laR/ in my dialect
>
> If I had to use it, I would feel compelled to pronounce the <h>,
> which makes it sound awkward for me.  Thus, my resistence of the
> term.
>
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It looks to me like i would pronounce it /'nijIlr=/  (for those of you
with fonts like the one i use that don't distinguish between capital "i"
and lowercase "L", the sequence /Il/ is capital "i" lowercase "L").


-Stephen (Steg)
 "verbing weirds language."  ~  calvin (& hobbes)