Re: "Coming out" about conlanging to people in Academia [was Re: Caryatic]

In a message dated 7/21/01 2:05:42 AM, zsau@YAHOO.COM.AU writes:

<< I've heard [AN"qai] and [AN"q&i] ([N] is uvular there) before, which are
probably variants upon the same. but never actually with a syllabic nasal.
And the people who say it spell it more like 'unky' or 'unkay'. Personally,
it seems more like a negative to me (I sometimes say /nANk&i/ for 'not
okay' (but normally /"nouk&i/))
 >>

    A...negative of "okay"?  Never heard of it.  Anyway, he definitely spells
it "okay".   Kind of like people who say [m=bai] don't spell it "Mbye".

-David