Re: New monster word in Maggel ;)))

En réponse à Christopher Wright <faceloran@...>:

> Christophe Grandsire sekalge:
> >Now how such a thing like |gdhmabgis| can possibly be regularly
> pronounced as
> >[dvE:Iz]?
>
> I'd say that the |hm| corresponds with the [v]. This means that the gd
> or
> gdh corresponds with [d]. I go for |gdh|.
>
> A final combination of |is| would likely make the |s| = [z]. In
> addition,
> the |i| has its own function. This is, perhaps, influenced by [part
> of]
> the bg cluster or the final s.
>
Well, you refer here to a phenomenon quite common in Maggel, which is that
letters can often be doubly used, and for the orthography to make sense you
have to consider that a letter is both used in two different digraphs, or used
by itself *and* as part of a digraph/trigraph/polygraph. However, I had
insisted that there was no "trap" in this word. And by "trap" I just meant this
kind of phenomenon :)) . On the other hand, you're right about the orthography
of [v] and [z] in this word. The rest is wrong however :)) .

>
> I'm going to say that this letter is |g|.
Funny enough, if I didn't know which |g| you were talking about, you would be
right ;)))) .

 I think that a final |is|
> would
> normally be pronounced [Iz], but |a| would not usually be [E]. Then
> |ab|
> would make [E] and |g| would lengthen it.
>
Unfortunately not... But that's because you added a hypothesis which is wrong
in Maggel. I let you guess which one :)) .

Christophe.

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