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Re: Phonetics for "LUGNET" trademark and member IDs (was Re: member id's: simple numbers or something mo
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Wed, 28 Jul 1999 23:47:35 GMT
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JSPROAT@IO.COMihatespam
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Robert Munafo wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> > I never knew there was such a thing as a "nasal sonorant" or a
> > "bilabial fricative"! I'm thinkin' TomMcD and JeremyS will be
> > themselves a fine time checking this SAMPA stuff out. :-)
Fortunately, you don't expect me to pass this one up.
> I don't actually know a sonorant from a fricative either, aside from what I can
> figure out by looking at the examples.
That's okay. It's a little-known fact that a sonorant is the high-pitched
sqawking sound made by someone rapidly applying a rubber eraser to a pencil
mark on a shaky metal table. Usage of this word was not uncommon until
about the 19th century, when its popularity eventually died down; the
emergence of table joint lubricant at this time is most probably a
coincidence.
As for the fricative, that's simply the blue rubber gasket on your car's
turn signal reservoir, sealing the connection where the reservoir delivers
fluid into the fribillator.
Cheers,
- jsproat
--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com>
http://www.io.com/~jsproat
Darth Maul Lives
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| (...) LOL!!! I'm laughing so hard I can hardly breathe. God, what I would give for a daily word-definition like that by e-mail in the morning, or an "Ask Jeremy" box on a web page where you could ask what a word meant. :) --Todd (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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