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- From: jsbell@acs.ucalgary.ca (Joshua Bell)
- Subject: Re: (MUSH) Those Wacky Cross-Gender Impressing Dragons
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 21:14:41 GMT
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- In article <C04wsJ.6zy@andy.bgsu.edu> jkiley@andy.bgsu.edu (James H. Kiley) writes:
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- > ...it occurs to me, actually, that the contractions in names as they're
- >set up is frankly wrong. Case in point: Cormic impresses bronze Lironth
- >and becomes C'mic. But try shouting the name 'Cormic' sometime. What comes
- >out, if you're pronouncing it like I do :), is CORmic. Corm'c or the like
- >would be the natural contraction. Mirrim-->MIRrim-->Mir'm, at least if you
- >pronounce it like I do.
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- So the Pernese don't pronounce things the way you do: feLAR ->
- F'lar, faNOR -> F'nor, corMIC -> C'mic, mirRIM -> M'rrim,
- feLESsan -> F'lessan. Any brits out there wanna confirm if this
- pronounciation of names is typical for those across the pond?
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- Joshua
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