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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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Thu, 29 Jul 1999 04:23:24 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Jeremy Sproat writes:
> 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. :-)
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> Fortunately, you don't expect me to pass this one up.
It's a "smart-ass thing" actually.
> > I don't actually know a sonorant from a fricative either, aside from what I • can
> > figure out by looking at the examples.
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> 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.
The first table-joint lubricant, made largely of walrus fat oil and safflower
extract, was called "Dr. Numba's Anti-Sonorant Potion". Dr. Numba was an alias
of a former carpet-bagger turned honest by the name of Howard Xerxes Milbourne
from Durham NC. Later, Milbourne found work as a chemist in developing the
world's first billiard balls.
> 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.
It's also an obscure Athapascan verb tense indicating the possible occurrence
of a future event pending approval of an appropriate spirit being, as in
"future fricative".
-Tom McD.
when replying, "Roll out the spamcake.. We'll have a barrel of fun.."
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