Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDT - November 2015
Kugai:
Well, that made the trip a bit more exciting
katsmeat:
This seems to be implying the flora and fauna is only a bit less dangerous then that in Harry Harrison's "Deathworld".
Morituri:
--- Quote from: Schwungrad on 14 Nov 2015, 04:56 ---... "Blernd" sounds like a syllable that no sane language would ever produce, ...
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It amazes me that you are saying that in English, and apparently with no intended irony.
English has CRAZY phonotactics! Seriously? The ridiculous language you speak has words like 'twelfths' - which literally has FOUR consonants in a row with only the first one voiced, and can't be pronounced by anyone else in the world except maybe Germans and Poles, you're saying you don't think a sane language could ever come up with 'blernd' which is all voiced and has no more than three consonants anywhere? Or just two consonants if you're pronouncing the 'r' as a vowel modification instead of by itself?
pwhodges:
English spelling may be crazy - but to an Englishman that word would still not fall within its possibilities.
Morituri:
'Blernd' violates English spelling rules only. If it were spelled 'blearned' and used as a past-tense verb, it wouldn't have attracted a second look. In fact you have already words like 'learned', 'burned', 'blend', 'bland', 'blind', ... There is nothing in that word, and no combination of noises, that isn't in English.
So, when you say that no sane language could come up with that syllable, I may doubt you or agree with you - but whether that's true about sane languages or not, English is crazy like a dancing goat, and that syllable is perfectly reasonable in it.
And, argh, don't get me started about your 'th' consonant! NOBODY (except German, again and some further-north European languages) has a consonant like that! When is it voiced and when not? No clue from the spelling. I had to practice for months before I could even say it by itself, let alone in the middle of a wreck of a word like 'twelfths' (or for that matter 'months').
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