French – a hoax
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Antariksh Bothale
Feb 22, 2011, 7:11:28 AM2/22/11
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Sourabh Biswas
Feb 22, 2011, 7:17:48 AM2/22/11
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Hahaha!
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On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Antariksh Bothale <antariks...@gmail.com> wrote:
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Mehul Jain
Feb 22, 2011, 11:14:10 AM2/22/11
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lol website!
Antariksh Bothale
Feb 22, 2011, 10:50:48 PM2/22/11
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From LanguageLog: This is what happens when you try to transliterate:
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Mark Liberman actually linked to all the instances... respect!
Also, a comment which explains:
The name contains two sounds that have multiple reflexes in Arabic dialects and are not always easily rendered by English. The first sound in Standard Arabic is a voiceless uvular stop /q/. The voiced pronunciation [G] of /q/ is a characteristic of Bedouin dialects. /g/ is probably the sound closest to how his own people say it, /q/ is the conventional way of representing the Standard Arabic uvular stop, and /k/ is the closest English sound to the uvular stop. I am not sure why the /h/ is added in so many cases. This more commonly used for fricatives. The second sound is a voiced interdental fricative. However, it is more commonly realized as [d] or [z] in spoken varieties. Here /d/ is probably closest to how it is said, /dh/ is a conventionalized way of representing the Standard Arabic sound, and /th/ is the closest way of representing the Standard Arabic sound in normal English orthography.
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The last hold-out for the Elizabethan approach to spelling. One of the few reasons that he'll be missed.
________________________________________________________________________________________Mark Liberman actually linked to all the instances... respect!
Also, a comment which explains:
The name contains two sounds that have multiple reflexes in Arabic dialects and are not always easily rendered by English. The first sound in Standard Arabic is a voiceless uvular stop /q/. The voiced pronunciation [G] of /q/ is a characteristic of Bedouin dialects. /g/ is probably the sound closest to how his own people say it, /q/ is the conventional way of representing the Standard Arabic uvular stop, and /k/ is the closest English sound to the uvular stop. I am not sure why the /h/ is added in so many cases. This more commonly used for fricatives. The second sound is a voiced interdental fricative. However, it is more commonly realized as [d] or [z] in spoken varieties. Here /d/ is probably closest to how it is said, /dh/ is a conventionalized way of representing the Standard Arabic sound, and /th/ is the closest way of representing the Standard Arabic sound in normal English orthography.
Antariksh Bothale
Feb 22, 2011, 10:52:37 PM2/22/11
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"I hope programmers worldwide will join me in calling for
M[ou]'?am+[ae]r .*([AEae]l[- ])? [GKQ]h?[aeu]+([dtz][dhz]?)+af[iy]
to step down.
M[ou]'?am+[ae]r .*([AEae]l[- ])? [GKQ]h?[aeu]+([dtz][dhz]?)+af[iy]
to step down.
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