Re: Mangling "Bleackley"
| From: | Ian Spackman <ianspackman@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 27, 2003, 13:49 |
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At 14:32 27/09/03, I wrote:
>This suggested "Bi-Likli", a pseudo-compound, but I have my doubts about
>that: "Bi" would bear the primary stress, and the vowel would be long too
>(I think now that vowels in open syllables, or at least stressed ones, are
>lengthened), which seems far too much weight to put on an epenthetic
>vowel. So I'm now thinking it should be "Ib-Likli", which would at least
>have a short vowel.
Hm, I'm being a fool. It shows I haven't had time to think about conlangs
much for a month. I'd forgotten it's turned out not to be the case that
the first syllables of nouns always bare the stress. So the name can be
rendered Iblíkli, with an unstressed intitial <i>, quite happily. And my
surname comes out as Aspákman.
Ian
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