From: "Tristan McLeay" <kesuari@...>
Subject: 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.
I'd pronounce |ow| as [&u] usually, myself. And [&] is indeed closer to [E]
than [o], so I say we should go with it.
[smEut] > "smout"
[Eud@bEriz] > "owdaberries"
> Hm... which is /bat@n/=[b64@n] for me... How would you write that?
[b64@n]? I'd write it as "bahrunn" or "bahdunn".
> >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@/.
Oops. I'd say it [Indaj@] or [Indaij@] as well.