Re: Idiolects

On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 14:35:44 -0800 nicole dobrowolski
<fuzzybluemonkeys@...> writes:
> i abuse my conlang so much that i ended up changing the spellings
> of several words so i would no longer be pronouncing them
> incorrectly... for example:
> thaweso /TAwEso/ became thawaeso /TAweso/
> and i still tend to mangle the actual name of the language when
> saying it out loud...
> it's supposed to be /nArETAnA?Al/ but it ends up coming out as
> /nArETAn?Al/... i might be using the wrong 'r' but that's not what
> changes anyway...
> ...nicole
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That's why the Rokbeigalmki phoneme written {F} is a /P/ bilabial
fricative instead of a /f/ labiodental one;  i kept on pronouncing it
that way, so i decided to enshrine it as the 'correct' sound in the
phonology of the language.  Now if only i could stop doing it in Spanish
and Arabic... i don't think they're going to change those languages to
suit my pronounciation :-P


-Stephen (Steg)
 "You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment
  that you touch perfect speed.  And that isn't flying a thousand
  miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light.
  Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn't have
  limits.  Perfect speed, my son, is being there."
                    ~ _jonathan livingston seagull_ by richard bach