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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.geek
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Thu, 29 Jul 1999 22:38:53 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Steve Bliss writes:
> On Wed, 28 Jul 1999 21:59:37 GMT, "Robert Munafo" <munafo@gcctech.com>
> wrote:
> > It's not at all clear whether you intend your syllable "MUHK" to rhyme
> > with "book" or with "fluke" (you didn't mean "muck" because then you
> > would have just typed "MUCK").
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> I assumed Todd *did* mean 'MUHK' to rhyme with 'muck'. I didn't think
> about it at the time, but 'UH' doesn't look much like it should be
> pronounced like the sounds in either "book" or "fluke".
That's essentially the problem with colloquial phonetic spelling -- there are
two methods. Some people (like me) use existing words whenever existing words
are available:
Todd: "TODD", Lugnet: "LUG-net", Steve: "STEVE", phonetic: "foe-NEH-tick"
and other people (perhaps including you) always use a certain letter pair for
each different vowel sound:
Todd: "TAWD", Lugnet: "LUHG-neht", Steve: "STEEV", phonetic: "foh-NEH-tihk"
Both methods have advantages and disadvantages, but they're incompatible, and
if you use the second method, there is no agreed-upon single consistent system
for representing the 20 or so vowel sounds that occur in English. That's
complicated by all the dialects.
-Robert Munafo
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| (...) Hey, how close is that to TWOD? (I gather that's the native-East-Coast way to pronounce it -- similar to BWOS'-tin. :) Where I grew up (Minneapolis) it's pronounced TAHD, but not quite the nasal TAAHHHD that they say in Milwaukee and Chicago. (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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