Talk:Terces

Swapping letters
I saw the comment in your article about needing to swap the letters in the middle of road. It may be worth saying that daor is possible, being pronounced to rhyme with sour. -- person who did not sign their name

I'm not sure backwards English can actually be pronounced "the same as English". Speech is something that comes before writing, so writing English backwards and then pronouncing it "how it is spelled" is kind of a nonsensical idea for a conlang (mostly because English orthography is a complete mess.  Aside from all the silent e's and the famous through, though, enough, cough and pony, bologna things, how do you pronounce "used" and "supposed"? And different accents sometimes having different phonemes, like the whole caught-cot-more-orange-father-bother thing?). On the other hand, you have to decide whether the actual phonetic sounds are what are being pronounced backwards, or the phonemes. And even then, no words end with [h] in English, or start with [ŋ ], and the alternative to ending with [ŋ] is to start with the consonant cluster, which breaks the phonotactic rules of English, [gn].

Also, is the language name pronounced [tʰ ɛ ɹ kʰis]? Honestly that just sounds like with an accent. Which is kind of a good language name if it's supposed to be funny. Joersc (talk) 04:57, March 30, 2015 (UTC)





