PRONUNCIATION KEY
A - as in "father", except "ag" rhymes with "nag"
C - as k before a, o, u (some exceptions)
- as s before i, e (some exceptions)
E - stressed: as in "obey"
- unstressed: as in "beg" (some exceptions)
G - as (hard) g before a, o, u
- usually as j before i, e, and word-final, occasionally in other places, some exceptions
H - usually as h, except in combinations (ch, ph, sh, th); either silent or slightly aspirated in certain locations (eg: Comselh). This last does not apply to the phonetic notation that follows: duh-loo-gah (dluga) does not end with an aspirated sound.
I - stressed: as in "machine"
- unstressed: as in "pill"
I,J - as y or jh ("ge" as in "garage") in initial position and before a vowel
O - stressed: as in "go"
- unstressed: as in "go" or as in "pot", especially in -och- (rhymes with "botch")
Q,QU - as "kuh", or "kwuh" (as in "quick")
U - usually as in "rule", but occasionally as in "mug"
- in initial position may be pronounced as "yew"
X - as in "fox"
Y - usually as under key for I and I,J
Z - as in "zoo"; in a very few words, as zod
CH - as k in most positions, but -"och" rhymes with "botch"
PH - as f
SH - as sh
TH - as th
Double vowels should be pronounced only partly separately, with an elided pause between them: QAA becomes Kuh-ah-ah, with only the barest hesitation.
― Arms, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 02:46 (eighteen years ago)
calling king it represents conservative liberalism-- from what i know, the 26th letter-- the z-sound-- represents the militarization the left of american capital's high-stakes game in an understanding that everyone respects the hex this monetary system puts on each one of us. a dedication to matriarchal religious transmission is called for, an honesty to the mother in mans' mind that holds on to the best understanding of the ethos embodied by the matriarchal ecology, e.g., getting money through memetic dominance. i think we could discern this numerology in a statistics of letter occurrence relative to one another measured against the idea the word represents
― Arms, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 03:18 (eighteen years ago)
two months pass...
three years pass...