Re: Digest-- Flags, millionaire, etc. (mostly OT)

>From: Muke Tever <alrivera@...>
>Well, except that the "syllabic R" in English is a rhotacized schwa (in
>XSAMPA /@`/ and /3`/... is 3 right?).
>So <curb> is /k3`b/.
I wonder why X-SAMPA uses the retroflex mark with schwa (and /3/, the
mid-open schwa).  For me, the syllabic R is more retracted (i.e.
semi-pharyngealized) than retroflex.  Mandarin "er" is retroflex.

>ISTR one fellow who couldn't identify what kind of poem "There once was a
>man from Nantucket" was.
"I knew a man from Nantucket.  All stories about him are greatly
exaggerated."  (Homer Simpson)

>ObConlang:  What would _your_ conlang's flag look like?   Why?
Tech (actually Techia): half white (top), half black (bottom).  In the
middle, a lion with green, yellow and red stripes from top to bottom.  A
blue circle with a white star is in the middle of the lion.

Quaelitz: three horizontal stripes: light blue top, orange middle, brown
bottom.  Yellow crescent moon and star (the Islamic symbol) in the upper
left.

Orcs: white skull and crossbones and red dagger on black background.  What
else could it be?

Callisto: I don't have it figured out yet... but it involves a red or
part-red background and a Greek or Maltese cross.

DaW.
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