Re: Why my conlangs SUCK!!!
| From: | Tristan McLeay <zsau@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 22, 2004, 4:17 |
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On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 08:22:25PM -0700, Muke Tever wrote:
> > >And if I made up a word like "Manderine" (a Manderine orange tangerine)
> > >how come we know to pronounce it "Mandereen"?
> >
> > Actually it could have a long i, on analogy with "Madeline".
>
> YAEPT Alert: around here, all "Madeline"s pronounce their name with
> a short /I/ or schwa.
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/?
(One American spelling that grates is 'Jared' for 'Jarrod', like the
Subway guy. Looks like /dZe:d/ t'me.)
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Tristan
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