Re: CONLANG Digest - 8 May

Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> What I find strange is that
> you have no problem with affricates like /tS/ and /dZ/, but you cannot
> handle affricates like /ts/ and /dz/
*I* can handle those without problem.  But English HAS /tS/ and /dZ/, so
they come naturally for English-Speakers, but /ts/ and /dz/ don't exist,
except at morpheme or syllable boundaries (like cat-s or cat.sup).  So,
to pronounce an affricate which doesn't exist in English takes some
effort, not much, but most people seem to be too lazy to try.  *shrug*

> (or even /gz/ like Xena /Zina/ that we pronounce in French /gzena/).
Hmm, I sometimes use /ks/ for initial X, which is usually /z/, but not
/gz/.

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