Re: Another attempt to introduce myself

bnathyuw: /maTju/

3404 is base 5 ( hope i've got my maths right ! ). dates are given in
common era.

bac = voice / language. ingland = England. yes, it's a mutation, but
functional rather than situational like in gaelic . . . the series is
dn, d, dh ( /n/, /d/, /D/ - vr.d.d.hi gun.a and base grade if you like )
and applies to ALL consonants. if a word starts with a vowel then it
takes t as an initial consonant when it needs to mutate.

the -a after bac is the appositional suffix. in high register language
you would say bac thata ingland, where thata is the oblique case of the
article ( or classifier ) tat in apposition to ingland. you could also
say bac thingland ( language of-england ), but baca thingland seems more
idiomatic.

seb / esb. yep, it's a regular process. invert C1 . . . VC2 to . . .
VC1C2 to give the place or area where something typically occurs ( in
this case circulation of blood ).

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Matthew Butt wrote:
> name: matthew (bnathyuw)
How's this pronounced?

> yob: 1979 (30404)
30404?  What do the years count from?

> l1: english (baca thingland)
Baca = language?  :-)  I like it, even if it does make me think of the
Japanese word _baka_  :-)

Where'd the th- in _thingland_ come from?  Is it a Celtic-style
mutation?

> Eurogen-does this make the EU a eurogenous zone ?
:-)

> width-in careful speech i say [widT] . . . am i a freak ?
Nope.  Or if you are, you're not the only one.  :-)  I know someone else
who says it that way.  I find it hard to make a /dT/ cluster personally.
I devoice both.

> seb-blood
> esb-heart
Cool.  Is that a regular process?

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