Re: research note on Pwxx (draft)

Oh Mark, *sigh*, have you been reading Neal Stephenson again? It's
Qwghlm & Comtesse Éliza de la Zeur (Sghr) all over again.

http://www.metaweb.com/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Stephenson:Neal:
Quicksilver:Qwghlm

"According to Stephenson... Qwghlm is pronounced somewhat like a
Bushman-style tongue-click (the Q) followed by a glottal swallowing
sound. Unable or unwilling to follow such linguistic acrobatics,
Englishmen tend to pronounce it, roughly, as Taggum. According to this,
the spires, called Sghr (mistransliterated by the French as Zeur),
could sound something like Z-swallowingsound--eer."

em'ly
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I don't think you can understand capitalism if you don't understand
zombies.
& that's why geeks make the best revolutionaries.
- China Miéville, British Marxism Conference 2004

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