Lecture 3 Assignments

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Students --

Once again, since you will always have at least a week to do your assignments, these assignments will not be due until the 2nd of October.

ASSIGNMENTS FOR LECTURE 3

LECTURE PART 1 ASSIGNMENT:

1. Use the Översteir to look up the Talossan translations of the followinng words, and describe how these words in each pair are distinguished from one another (if they are at all) in pronunciation:

a. to "prod" and to "loathe"
b. to "dilute" and to "excavate"
c. to "cease" and to "chase"
d. "yellow" and "snotty"
e. "neck" and "buttocks"
f. to "chase away" and to "sedate"
g. to "advise" and to "conceal"
h. "hernia" and "gila monster"
i. "bullet" and "skeleton"
j. "hunter" and "cashier"
k. "chin" and "movies"

2. Each of the following English words could be respelled in Talossan more than one way. Repell each of them as many ways as you can:

a. sash
b. rocky
c. father
d. macho

3. Choose an English word and spell it as if they were Talossan so that the Talossan respelling includes letter combination shown:

a. tx
b. gn
c. glh
d. xh
e. tg

4. Which letter (a consonant that is sometimes called a vowel) exists in the English alphabet but is not used in Talossan? Which consonants exist in the Talossan alphabet but not in English?

5. What problem would respelling the English words "agnostic" and "barhop" pose? (HINT: This is similar to question 5 concerning part 2 of lecture 2; we will discuss how this problem is solved in the next lecture.)

LECTURE PART 2 ASSIGNMENT:

1. In the now-faded system of consonant mutation, where were consonants that mutated found?

2. What is the term for a consonant that mutates to a "softer" sound? What is the term for a consonant that mutates to a "harder" sound? Give two examples of each in Talossan.

3. Respell the following English words into Talossan, using consonant mutation in each:

a. free
b. veal
c. heel
d. dome
e. team
f. weed
g. union

4. Both nouns in the Talossan translation of "the hand of God" are among the few remaining nouns that often exhibit consonant mutation. Translate this phrase into Talossan: la ______ da _______.

5. Talossan has two words for the English preposition "towards". Translate the following prepositional phrases into Talossan, using both of these words:

a. towards me
b. towards you
c. towards you-all
d. towards them

VOCABULARY ASSIGNMENT:

1. When occurring at the beginning of a word, c'h is often a lenitive change of the letter c. Uncheck the "Whole Words Only?" checkbox on the Översteir then look up the word "HOME". Turn in the three examples of c'h as a lenitive change that you see.

2. Use the Översteir in its Talossan-to-English mode, with the "Whole Words Only?" checkbox unchecked to find Talossan words that have some of the consonant features you learned about in the lecture. For example:

• type "glh" into the box to see all words that contain that consonant group
• type "<mh" into the box to see all phrases that contain a word beginning with the lenitive combination "mh".
• use "SS" (two CAPITAL letters) to signify the eseta (ß)

Turn in twenty words or phrases that you discovered and learned through this exercise.

3. Turn in five simple English conversational phrases or simple statements. There is no need to translate them into Talossan; the translations will be provided in next week's vocabulary assignment.

INDIVIDUAL TRANSLATION PROJECT ASSIGNMENT:

Change the consonants in your text to Talossan consonants. Use consonant mutation if you wish. For example, the English word feast could become phist. As with last week, do not worry about being perfect; the aim is that you will still be able (while in your growing "Talossan" frame of mind) to read your altered text and recognize the English words.

COURSE TRANSLATION PROJECT ASSIGNMENT:

No assignment until one of the final weeks. Continue your group discussion.