Re: Insult (jara: Weekly Vocab 8)

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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