Re: An incongruent orthography: Maggel

In a message dated 4/7/02 08.54.00 AM, christophe.grandsire@FREE.FR writes:

>l followed by another consonant is pronounced "dark" (like English dark
>l, whatever it is - unvoiced? -)
    Voiced velarized lateral approximant /L/ :) One of my favourite sounds
this side of /F/ labiodental nasal "dark 'm'" (as in "murky," "museum" &
"murder" vs. that of the purely bilabial 'm' /m/ in "mommy","mother", "enemy
mine", etc.)

<ZNiP>
>mn: [m@n] (though because of my lack of knowledge of that time, I probably
>meant [mn=] but didn't know that it existed :)) )
    Damn ;)

>n followed by another consonant becomes "dark". I don't know what I really
>meant there, except that "ng" is [N]...
    "Dark" or "hard" usually AFAIK means a voiced consonant is either
velarized, retroflexed or palatalized in phonemic contrast with other
"plainer" voiced consonants. I dunno if this right or not... ::pokes
Dirk/Kou/JCowan/etc.::  Heeeelp...

    Christophe, I like the _a maggel_ rough sketch. Looks as intriguing as
Degaspregos (sp?) ;)

Hanuman Zhang  {HANoomaan JAHng} /'hanuma~n  dZahN/
~§~
_LILA_ <from Sanskrit> = "Divine Play"  - the 'joyous exercise of spontaneity
involved in the art of creation' (Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan)...the play of
creation, destruction, & re-creation, the folding & unfolding of the cosmos...
both the delight & enjoyment of this moment, & the play of [the] God[head]
("the universe is what happens when God wants to play").

_Spielraum_ <from German> = free scope to experiment with things & ideas; to
toy with ideas; room to play in

    WHIM = 1a. a sudden fancy; a caprice. b. capriciousness. 2. a kind of
windlass for raising ore or water from a mine. [17th century: origin unknown]
    WHIMSY (plural forms: WHIMSIES, WHIMSEYS) = 1. a whim; a capricious
notion or fancy. 2. capricious or quaint humour. [related to WHIM-WHAM
]/Italian _capriccio_, French _boutade_
    WHIM-WHAM = a toy or plaything

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