Drem yol lok! I've just hit around 60% of the Memrise Canon course and found my first homophone - Kul. I'm wondering, are there any other Canonical homophones?
Homophones
Vahzahhind January 23, 2017 |
Drem yol lok! I've just hit around 60% of the Memrise Canon course and found my first homophone - Kul. I'm wondering, are there any other Canonical homophones? |
Frinmulaar January 24, 2017 |
Nin is a homophone to niin, according to some. And in-universe, nok 'be at rest' is a homophone to nok 'tell falsehood as truth'. |
Nin is a homophone to niin, according to some. And in-universe, nok 'be at rest' is a homophone to nok 'tell falsehood as truth'.
paarthurnax Administrator January 24, 2017 |
Homophones are pretty rare since there's a small vocabulary and by-the-book pronunciation keeps similarly spelled words unique (e.g. aak and ok). Besides the examples Frinmulaar posted, another possible homophone comes up with laanne 'requests' and lahney 'to live'. |
Homophones are pretty rare since there's a small vocabulary and by-the-book pronunciation keeps similarly spelled words unique (e.g. aak and ok).
Besides the examples Frinmulaar posted, another possible homophone comes up with laanne 'requests' and lahney 'to live'.
Vahzahhind January 24, 2017 |
Thanks for the further examples! @Frinmulaar I forgot that Nok is the same homophone as English. I think that's a pretty funny how they probably directly translated that across @Paarthurnax Yeah with a vocabulary of ~630 I was surprised to find even 1 "orthographical homophone". With the above answer I guess there are at least two. I imagine the different 'A' sounds to be distinct would you say laanne and lahney as the same? They're definitely very similar but my tell tale for me if I had to say it would be the h in lah. a - short ah aa - long ah ah - hard to describe but I definitely have the 'h' sound after the a
I do the same with i and ii. I guess it's just a side effect of learning Japanese with their mora system |
Thanks for the further examples!
@Frinmulaar I forgot that Nok is the same homophone as English. I think that's a pretty funny how they probably directly translated that across
@Paarthurnax Yeah with a vocabulary of ~630 I was surprised to find even 1 "orthographical homophone". With the above answer I guess there are at least two. I imagine the different 'A' sounds to be distinct would you say laanne and lahney as the same? They're definitely very similar but my tell tale for me if I had to say it would be the h in lah.
a - short ah
aa - long ah
ah - hard to describe but I definitely have the 'h' sound after the a
I do the same with i and ii. I guess it's just a side effect of learning Japanese with their mora system
Ruvgein January 26, 2017 |
Aan - a Aan - slave I never liked that, if a Dragon says "aan joor" there is no way to know if you are just another mortal to them or they feel that you're their slave. |
Aan - slave
I never liked that, if a Dragon says "aan joor" there is no way to know if you are just another mortal to them or they feel that you're their slave.
paarthurnax Administrator January 26, 2017 |
Ruvgein Aar or zaam are much more common, so that helps clear confusion. Aan as meaning 'slave' should really never be used. |
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