tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri May 17 13:19:04 1996
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Re: Cannon for Multiple Consonants
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>Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 21:00:03 -0700
>From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
>Sa' qIQwI' writes:
>>(1) none of my dictionaries knows "gooey" so for me it's
>>a useless example of pronunciation.
>Do you know "kablooie" or "ptui" or the South American name
>for Guinea Pig (I don't know how to spell it, but it sounds
>like "cooey")?
Sami speaks Esperanto: think "tuj", Sa'.
>It says {ew} can be *approximated* by running {e} and {u} together,
>and it says {Iw} can be *likewise* approximated with {I} {u}. The
>best explanations I've seen for pronouncing them involve imagining
>Elmer Fudd saying "tewwible" and "miwacle" where the "w"s take the
>place of "r"s in the words "terrible" and "miracle."
Why thank you. :) "Tewwible" is my coining, on the web page.
Unfortunately, that's even more culturally dependent than "gooey."
~mark
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