Event - Various Dinners
Sep. 12th, 2004 03:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackEdith's leaving do, somewhat paraphrased. And I think several quotes are misattributed.
Me: How would you pronounce "Gchu"
Someone: "G-C-H-Q."
Me: No, U, not Q.
Rob: With a silent 'G', I think.
Requiem: What language is that?
Me: It's made up.
Requiem: But it matters. A made up German word would follow different pronunciation rules to a made up French word.
Me: It's a made up word in a made up language. But it's suppoed to be able to be pronounced by an English reader with appendices.
Someone: That's impossible.
AFPer: I couldn't help overhearing. Are you talking about linguistics?
Me: ANYWAY! Look at it like this: I want a word that's got a soft "g", followed immediately by a "ch" and then a "u" or "oo". How would you spell that?
Rob: "Gachu" or "Gechu"
Pippa: How about with a "tsh" instead of "ch"?
Me: The thing is, it's a really short first vowel sound.
Rob: Or an apostrophe: "G'chu."
Pippa: No!
Me: Or if you're worried about the G not being pronounced, you could put a diareses over it.
Pippa: NOOOOOOOOOO!
Last night I had T and J over for dinner, and George cooked a great pizza from scratch, and we all had vodka. It was good.
Me: How would you pronounce "Gchu"
Someone: "G-C-H-Q."
Me: No, U, not Q.
Rob: With a silent 'G', I think.
Requiem: What language is that?
Me: It's made up.
Requiem: But it matters. A made up German word would follow different pronunciation rules to a made up French word.
Me: It's a made up word in a made up language. But it's suppoed to be able to be pronounced by an English reader with appendices.
Someone: That's impossible.
AFPer: I couldn't help overhearing. Are you talking about linguistics?
Me: ANYWAY! Look at it like this: I want a word that's got a soft "g", followed immediately by a "ch" and then a "u" or "oo". How would you spell that?
Rob: "Gachu" or "Gechu"
Pippa: How about with a "tsh" instead of "ch"?
Me: The thing is, it's a really short first vowel sound.
Rob: Or an apostrophe: "G'chu."
Pippa: No!
Me: Or if you're worried about the G not being pronounced, you could put a diareses over it.
Pippa: NOOOOOOOOOO!
Last night I had T and J over for dinner, and George cooked a great pizza from scratch, and we all had vodka. It was good.
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Date: 2004-09-12 09:29 am (UTC)Spelling it G'chu would make the first vowel sound non-existant I think with a glottal stop.
Yeah, that is pretty much what I was aiming for. Though Pippa has since persuaded me it's not such a good idea.
More illustrative might be to ask 'how do you spell this sound'... to people in person.
I *did*! That's what got us started on the whole diaresis-squickness-thing :)
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Date: 2004-09-12 09:49 am (UTC)Well G'chu sounds like it's a)Klingon b)a sneeze...
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Date: 2004-09-13 06:02 am (UTC)