30-06-2022, 12:48 PM
Interesting question!
Having been involved in quite a few online discussions on this topic, my personal experience is that one cannot really pronounce Voynichese words by using Eva. Anytime this happened, the speaker tended to have to spell the word.
It also doesn't help that English is highly inconsistent when mapping written symbols to sounds.
Now Eva was designed by a native Spanish speaker and a native Dutch speaker, so this problem hindered us much less. For example, neither of us ever (mentally) saw "ai" (as in "dain") to be pronounced as English "I", but always as a diphthong.
Still, none of the languages mentioned above have a proper way of pronouncing "qo" or "ii".
Having the word written down in the presentation seems inevitable.
For Q&A I think improvisation is the way forward, just in case there would be such a detailed question.
Without knowing how the sessions are organised, use of the/a chat would help greatly, as experienced in Zoom/Teams/Webex meetings.
Having been involved in quite a few online discussions on this topic, my personal experience is that one cannot really pronounce Voynichese words by using Eva. Anytime this happened, the speaker tended to have to spell the word.
It also doesn't help that English is highly inconsistent when mapping written symbols to sounds.
Now Eva was designed by a native Spanish speaker and a native Dutch speaker, so this problem hindered us much less. For example, neither of us ever (mentally) saw "ai" (as in "dain") to be pronounced as English "I", but always as a diphthong.
Still, none of the languages mentioned above have a proper way of pronouncing "qo" or "ii".
Having the word written down in the presentation seems inevitable.
For Q&A I think improvisation is the way forward, just in case there would be such a detailed question.
Without knowing how the sessions are organised, use of the/a chat would help greatly, as experienced in Zoom/Teams/Webex meetings.