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[addlepated]

Ok... here's all I can manage to come up with:

-I think the PM is male
-Alexandria, VA area or thereabouts - the PM journal mentioned that he used to work for a web design company, www.grafik.com, in that area
-He went to Burning Man? and Florida? or had compatriots in the area
-Associated with Justin_Case
-Not one of the Acheron, JMX, or CTW PMs
-Not a Cloudmaker mod

I thought from the mention earlier of the phonemes and that the language might not matter, it could be reversed speech - but alas, it didn't sound recognizable to me backwards.

[addlepated]

Also, it looks like "unaspired" is a way to pronounce a sound - like the difference between P and B. P is unaspired and voiceless, you can make the sound even if you do not breathe and don't have vocal cords.

Following that train of thought -

tankuyv becomes... Tinkif? Are we supposed to say it without breathing out and without voicing sound?

[Justin_Case]

Hey!

[konamouse]

can you run the wav backwards?

[Ozy_y2k]

I dunno if this is still the case, but it used to be not-terribly-hard to find out who the PM is. He may have taken down some of his personal websites which clearly signposted his identity. I started by tracking down his various postings on the Yahoo! Cloudmakers board during the Beast (which he references at some point in his Puppetmaster journal) and then working backward from there.

However, that knowledge gave me little or no insight into the identity of his main CHARACTER, Ewan, or the intended arc of the storyline, so I abandoned that line of inquiry rather quickly. Knowing all about the man-behind-the-curtain is not that exciting when playing an ARG, unless you're oriented toward stalkerdom.

[Ozy_y2k]

addle figured it out.

[Guest]

I'd like to think addle figured it out from the voiceless unaspired stuff, rather than the Ozy method, but I suppose it doesn't matter.

Posts in my own LJ at various points over the 9 month gestation of the game and the gameplay itself provided clues into the identities of the players and the solutions to puzzles. My irl friends were really perplexed at my posts about three skulled bulls and the like, as none of them were told about the game.

[Caterpillar]

I suppose it would help if one knew you were to begin with right?

For someone who didn't, trying to make sense out of the "phonemes" is a little tough no?

[addlepated]

I actually figured it out from a combination of the two. The wav definitely leads straight to you, but requires a bit of research on phonemes. There's not much information out there on what "unaspired" actually means (and several people who apparently mistook the word for "uninspired"). The best analogy I can come up with is:

[Caterpillar]

Clear as mud......lol

I sort of understand, but I whatever I'm coming up with doesn't translate into anyone I know.........and still resembles what has been posted thus far.

That's why I'm asking? Should I continue in the hopes that an identity will pop out at me or is it a SN that I may not know and therefore (as many are) really wouldn't stand out if I did make the sounds properly (or not make the sounds as the case may be)

[addlepated]

No, it's not a name that you would most likely recognize.

[lucky_starr]

I would post URLs to linguistics sites with good guides to unaspired vs. aspired phonemes and voiced vs. voiceless ones, but going back to them now they are all 404.