Re: Insult (jara: Weekly Vocab 8)

Joseph Fatula wrote:

[Finding a representation for [Eu]]

>That would be [ju], as [smjut] and [jud@bEriz].
>
>
How about ow (as in abOUt)? Would be what I use (I have /&u/=[&u~&y~&:]*
for that sound.

*: Though it wouldn't surprise me if for the younger bits of my
generation, my [&:]=/&u/ (in words like 'dowry') is merging/has merged
with [&:]=/&:/ (in words like 'ban').

>If I had to include a vowel with a final syllabic "n"?  I'm not sure I
>understand what you're asking me.  I have syllabic "n" in final position in
>my dialect, so I never "have" to include a vowel with a final "n", if that's
>what you mean.  For example, "button" is [b@?n].
>
Hm... which is /bat@n/=[b64@n] for me... How would you write that?

>Good idea.  Trouble is, "indya" looks really weird, as we don't really have
>too many spellings like this.  There's a singer with the name Mya pronounced
>as [maja], as |y| often represents long-i, |ai|.  The spelling "indya" could
>elicit [Indaja] too easily.
>
Yeah, I agree, scept I'd've said it was /Indaij@/.


BTW: Question about maths terminology. In the past on this list, people
have mentioned things like ' and '' being 'prime' and 'double prime' (I
think the example was a Sarah (I think) saying in her maths class the
two Sarahs were distinguished as Sarah prime (Sarah') and Sarah double
prime[1] (Sarah'') or something). Is this the normal name (in America?)
for ' (in maths, rather than as an apostrophe)? So would f'(x), being
the derivative of f(x), be called "the f-prime of x"? Because I was
thinking about it, and realised that they've always been called
whatever-dashed, so f'(x) is the "the f-dashed of x", including by our
(we think) South African Calculus lecturer.

[1]: To which John complained, or quoted someone's complaint, about it
actually be 'Sarah-second(?)'. We'd call it Sarah-double-dashed.

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Tristan                  <kesuari@...>

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