Quotes of the Historical Kind:

[eyja]

"What's it called when a vowel goes from Low to High?"
"Raising."
"High to Low?"
"Lowering."
"Back to front?"
"Backing."
"Monothong to diphthong? ...Diphthongization. Make it up! It should be right."

Comments

[rillaspins]

That sounds like something from rymeswithghoti.

[eyja]

rymeswithghoti?

[rillaspins]

That's her livejournal name. She's on my friends list.

Apparently "ghoti" is pronounced "fish". She studies linguistics at Macalaster (I think) and sometimes talks about having to pronounce things with gutteral accents.....

[eyja]

Cool

[akaneko]

Never underestimate the power of inventing words that sound like they SHOULD be proper linguistics terms, even if they're not already.