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Conversations With K

mdxi on 2004-07-09T03:57:07

[M] ...so I was reading this messed up story in the Book of Enoch, from the Apocrypha... [K] Heh. Enoch. [M] What? [K] It's only one letter away from "eunuch". [M] No it's not; it's one changed and one added. E-N-O-C-H; E-U-N-U-C-H. [K] (Looking smug) I meant in IPA.

(smart girls)++

Hmm

vsergu on 2004-07-09T18:41:54

Someone pronounces "eunuch" and/or "Enoch" weirdly, or doesn't understand IPA, or just managed to find an explanation for a simple mistake that you'd buy.

Re:Hmm

mdxi on 2004-07-09T19:13:26

A bit of the first, a bit of (trying for) the latter. The two words are almost identical save for their initial vowel sounds -- in a
Southeastern USian accent. The second syllables of both words come out as something very closely approximating "nihk".

The rest was humor and a desire to have the last word :)

Re:Hmm

vsergu on 2004-07-09T19:35:09

Okay, but in IPA the initial vowels sound of either word (especially "eunuch") would have more than one letter ( juw versus ij , or whatever), so the difference would still be more than one letter. </pedantry>