Re: Trollspeak

Dan Sulani wrote:
>     For example, I have never heard, let alone used, in "normally" fast
> English, (my native language) all the syllables in "what are you going
> to do".
> It comes out more like "wVtS gVn du".
Hmm, I usually hear /wVtS@ g@n@ du/.  The most I ever hear is probably
/wVt@ j@ gVn@ du/.  I don't think you'd *ever* hear /wVt ar ju gow.iN tu
du/ simply because if someone is speaking that carefully, they'll use
the more formal "what will you do?" (/wVt wIl ju du/).

Incidentally, in my (still barely started) idea for Future English,
"gonna" has replaced "will" in the form /N@/, no "to be", so "I nga go"
= "I'm gonna go".

>     The difference, IMHO, is not standard versus non-standard, but
> careful
> versus non-careful (_not_  "sloppy",  please)
> speech.
Or careful vs. normal speech.

>  likehsna  rtem  zuv  tikuhnuh  auag  inuvuz  vaka'a.
>
>  A  word  is  an  awesome  thing.
saga'yu' kla lusaqa'i'yu'
To speak is to create (similar thought)

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