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Re: Insult (jara: Weekly Vocab 8)

From:Joseph Fatula <fatula3@...>
Date:Monday, May 26, 2003, 18:41
From: "David Barrow" <davidab@...>
Subject: Re: Insult (jara: Weekly Vocab 8)


> jO: fA:D@ > yaw fawtha > > |aw| for two different sounds?
Well, I know that "yaw" sounds like [jO] for me, but I wasn't sure how to spell [fAD@]. If I wrote "fatha", it could be [faD@], as "father" is [faDr]. Probably "fottha" for [fAD@] would be best, but it's hard to say.
> smEl?@v > smelk of > > |k| for glottal stop?
Seeing as we don't have a regular way of spelling [?] in English, I just tried something that seemed close. I know how [smEl?] sounds, but it's hard to transcribe. The biggest problem is that final consonants for me tend to break off and attach to the beginning of the next word if it starts with a vowel. What I ought to write would be "smell. Of", so that there'd be enough of a pause to keep it from being "smeh love".
> and how would you interpret this orthographically? > > [j@ mVD@ w@z@ h&mst@ n= dj@ fA:D@ smEut@v Eud@bEriz] > > [w@z@ h&mst@] can also be [w@zn= &mst@] with h dropping > > [n= dj@] or [n= j@] or even [n= dZ@]
"Yuh mutha wuzzen amsta india fottha smote of odaberries." For me, /dj/ always becomes /dZj/, just as /tj/ > /tSj/. That's why writing something to be pronounced [n=dj@] is hard. Do you not have any L sound?

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