Re: Why my conlangs SUCK!!!

(Silly messages coming out-of-order.)

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Nik Taylor wrote:

> Tristan McLeay wrote:
> > Apropos of this, there is a female American name pronounced [mejg@n] or
> > thereabouts. Is that simply the American (for particular values of
> > American, of course) pronunciation of 'Meagan', which I say as /mIig@n/?
>
> I usually hear [mEg@n].  I knew a girl, tho, who went by [mig@n] (tho,
> many people used the common [mEg@n] pronunciation)
Hm, I don't think I've heard [mEg@N] (from Americans), but that doesn't
mean anything other than I don't think I've heard it.

> You have /Ii/?  Is that actually [Ii]?
Well, it patterns as a diphthong, and it's pronounced as a diphthong. The
exact starting point is somewhere in between [I], [e] and [@]. At the ends
of words and before vowels, it's closer to pure [i]. It has a relationship
with /I/.

(Jarrod is pronounced /dZ&r@d/. Roger points out that the capital should
indicate that 'Jared' 's not a past tense, but even still, it'd then be
pronounced /dZe:r@d/ because the single consonant isn't enough to stop the
vowel being wrong. Americans that don't distinguish between 'Mary' and
'marry', though, I guess won't have this problem.)

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Tristan

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