Re: An incongruent orthography: Maggel

En réponse à John Cowan <jcowan@...>:

> Christophe Grandsire scripsit:
>
> > By the way, how would an English speaker
> > pronounce the word "Maggel"? ['mAgl=]?
>
> Almost certainly ['m&gl=]. What you write I would transcribe
> "Moggle", but of course other anglophones would make that ['mOgl] or
> the like: my version of English unrounds all short low vowels,
> but not long low vowels.
>
Well, ['m&gl=] is OK anyway (forgot this one. I have to put in in Maggel :)) ).
I just wanted a pronunciation that would be far enough from the "correct"
one :)) . ['m&gl=] is far enough from [m@'gE:l] :)) . The whole point of Maggel
is to have an orthography even more nightmarish than English without looking
like English (but maybe remotely looking like Irish Gaelic :)) ).

Christophe.

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