Re: noun forms of verbs

In a message dated 11/18/01 10:46:40 AM, fuzzybluemonkeys@YAHOO.COM writes:

>--- Tristan Alexander McLeay froge sionk:
>>
>> On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, nicole dobrowolski wrote:
>>
>> > thetre= to laugh
>>
>> Not at all influenced by `theatre' (or "theater")? Not that theatre
>> is all
>> that funny...
>
>actually no... it was influenced by one of my sister's typos when she
>was instant messaging me... i forget what she was originally trying
>to type, but i do know it wasn't theater... but she's a horrible
>speller anyway and once you put her in front of a keyboard...well...
>let's just say a lot of narethaal's words were inspired by her
>instant messages and emails...
>if i haven't totally screwed up the (sampa) notation i think it would
>be pronounced:
>TEtrE
>i'm not so sure i have the right r though
So wait ... if <th> represents one consonant than why isnt hethetre thethetre?

Josh Roth
http://members.aol.com/fuscian/eloshtan.html

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