If I’d written j sound, some wiseacre would’ve gotten all IPA on me, and I’m low on bullets right now.
Random character: <looks at Jocasta’s chest>: “They…jiggle?!”
Jocasta:* <imitates Arnold Schwarzenegger>*: “They’re made of liquid metal.”
Fool of a synthezoid!
Liquid metal could simply be mercury or cesium. (Or any molten metal, but the lack of crap around being on fire would militate against that.) If Jocasta’s bosom bounces, it will be living metal.
On other matters, Jocasta (WHICH IS PRONOUNCED WITH A Y SOUND, GODDESS DAMN IT!) was constructed to be Ultron’s bride. One wonders, then, if she has any hidden orifices, and if Ultron (that year’s model, anyway) had any hidden, um, extensibles.
Yes, I know that’s insane. But that’s kinda my point. Ultron is made of crazy. He’s Hank Pym times a zillion, after all.
Man’s got an insect fetish. Different strokes.
The way you did it isn’t any less of a target for IPA proponents. Believe me, I’m one of them. For one, y sound isn’t significantly less ambiguous than j sound. Soft is also ambiguous.
Well, I was mostly being a wiseacre my ownself. But “soft g” seemed the best combo of likely to be understand, brief, and correct. Yes, I could have written ʤ or dzh. But in my experience, people who haven’t studied phonetics since 5th grade are likely to have heard the terms hard & soft g, as well as hard & soft c. So that’s brief and to the point. I agree that there’s no reason to think of the voiced stop of ghost and the voiced fricatives of *judge *as being variations as one another, but at least people know what I mean.
I pronounce it like I would Javier - “Hocasta”, only guttral.
Maybe they are an EXACT match. Might explain Hankie’s frequent mad-on. No little yellow-jacket larvae.
:eek: :mad:
Filthy Quesada-lover! This affront shall not be forgotten!
At least it didn’t vocalize a melody with lyrics.
Well, referring to another person of a similar name, Professor Schickele translated the name in Oedipus Tex as Betty Jo Casta. So, soft g for me.
I’ve always been confused which is hard g and which is soft.
Doesn’t have to be actual metal. Any strong flexible shiny compound would do.
Fine. Next time I will write /g/, /j/ & /ʤ/, so 75% of the board can then go, “What?”
Hooked on Phonics didn’t do jack shit for me.
That’s ONE.
Well, that’s how ignorance is fought!
You could always include a link:
Or I could have simply written “j as in jerry versus j as in Hallejujah,” thus avoiding information overload.
That’s pronounced hollyhooha, right?