Re: Tho (was: Blandness (was: Uusisuom's influences))

Carlos Thompson wrote:
>ObConlang (this means: Obligatory Constructed Language related comment,
>since this thread seems slightly off-topic):
>As observed there are two kind of abrevations/acronyms: those used in
>the spoken language and those used only when writting.  In formally
>written English, even accepted spoken abreviations like "don't" must not
>be written, but some other abreviations, like "e.g." are accepted even
>if never used spoken.
This would probably annoy David Peterson no end, but in Swedish (my native
lang), I've long since taken to pronounce certain such abbrevs more or less
as written. Eg Swedish _till exampel_ "for instance, eg" is commonly
abbreved {t ex}, which I've taken to pronounce /teks/ in informal language.
Really weird is /d@vs"/ (REALLY short schwa) for {dvs} _det vill säga_ "that
is to say".

Sometimes I do this in English too; {eg} becomes /eg/ and {abbrev(iation)}
becomes /@b"rev/. I only do this among close friends, tho'.

>Well: what is the "commonly accepted" situation in our conlangs?
Not developed any abbrevs yet, but there's a similar thing with schwa in
endings. A dative like _meker_ is often reduced to /mekr/, but writing
{mekr} is considered an error.

                                                     Andreas
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