Re: Why my conlangs SUCK!!!

Tristan wrote:
> > > (One American spelling that grates is 'Jared' for 'Jarrod', like the
> > > Subway guy. Looks like /dZe:d/ t'me.)
> >(Nik Taylor:)
> >Ugh, another error on my side.  :-)  Anyhoo, similar question, aremedial
> >-r- usually silent for you?
>
> Well, the the -ed makes it look like a past tense (or similar), so it
> looks like Jare+(e)d.
Surely the capital gives a hint-- "yoo hoo, this is not a past tense!"
:-)))   For a long time, when a lot younger, I thought "biped" and "misled"
were [bajpt] and [majz@ld], though happily they were only in reading, not
spoken, vocab.

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