Re: Phoneme winnowing continues
| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 7, 2003, 19:04 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Nik Taylor" <yonjuuni@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 6:46 PM
Subject: Re: Phoneme winnowing continues
> Ian Spackman wrote:
> >
> > But Americans who have read _The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy_ books
may
> > recall a reference to supposed biroid life forms, even if they didn't
get
> > the joke at the time.
>
> They must've changed it in the American publication, because I remember
> them using the term "ballpointoid" or something similar.
>
> Incidentally, I'd've interpreted "biro" as /biro/, rather than /bajro/
> which someone else said was the pronunciation. :-)
[bAjr@u], actually. And while it should be [biro], what kind of Englishman
pronounces foreign words/names correctly, eh?
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