Re: You meet the oddest people on the Internet

From: "Henrik Theiling" <theiling@...>

[me]

> > I still wonder why, however, <ch> is [C] after consonants, as in _dorch_
> > "through" [dO@C].
>
> It's actually 'durch'.  I have [du:IC] for this word, so a clear front
> vowel. :-) Standard would be [du:6C], though.
Whew, thanks for finding that error. (And the fact that back <ch> is uvular,
[X]; it matches up with <r> /R/). There's a story behind that: one of the
earliest words I came up with that never gained a meaning was <dorcht>. This
was when Tech was under a different name and had a tamer phonology, and was
written exclusively in Latin. It was pronounced something like either
[dOrCt] or [dOrSt]. I didn't even have uvular stops; I had <q> in my
alphabet, but it represented /G/ or possibly /R/. So the surname Darq was
pronounced [d@rG] or maybe [d@rR], the sounds of two different "r's" right
next to each other....

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