Re: Fruitcakes was Re: Kentum/satem
| From: | Maarten van Beek <dungeonmaster@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 3, 2002, 6:04 |
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> Van: Constructed Languages List
> Onderwerp: Re: Fruitcakes was Re: Kentum/satem
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> In a message dated 05/02/2002 12.09.27 AM, Jan (ijzeren_jan@YAHOO.CO.UK)
> writes:
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> >In Dutch we have a word for this: "Geuzennaam"; you take the (insulting)
> >name the enemy gives you and use it proudly as your own weapon!
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> What's the X-SAMPA for this wonderful linguistic bon-bon?
Well, in my dialect it would be something like ['x@\s@"nam], where @\ should
be rounded instead of unrounded (but I don't know the X-Sampa for a rounded
close-mid central vowel. ' indicates primary and " secondary stress (I know
this is not X-SAMPA standard).
Maarten
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