Re: "Coming out" about conlanging to people in Academia [was Re: Caryatic]
| From: | Tristan Alexander McLeay <zsau@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, July 21, 2001, 9:05 |
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At 04:20 PM 21/07/2001, you wrote:
> That was the time when I noticed, of all odd things (and I swear to
> you, this is true), he pronounced the word "okay" as [N=.'q_he]
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/))
Tristan
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