InevitableSwing [none/use name] to askchapo • 1 year agoWhat is a word you realized you were pronouncing wrong until you heard someone else say it?imagemessage-square100 fedilinkarrow-up154
arrow-up154imageWhat is a word you realized you were pronouncing wrong until you heard someone else say it?InevitableSwing [none/use name] to askchapo • 1 year agomessage-square100 Commentsfedilink
minus-square2Password2Remember [he/him]hexbear11·edit-21 year agodon’t have a good answer to OP’s question but i just want to give a shoutout to my fellow IPA literate sickos in this thread fighting the good fight Death to America link
minus-squarealexandra_kollontai [she/her]hexbear7·1 year agoHexbear won't understand this coded message: /'dəþ 'tu 'ði æm'εrɪkən 'længwədʒ/ link
minus-square2Password2Remember [he/him]hexbear3·1 year ago stress markers on one-syllable words Death to America link
minus-squareShinhoshi@lemmygrad.mlhexbear2·1 year ago æ I have to remind myself not to pronounce /æ/ like Latin “ae”. Laughing at IPA /æ/ in “American” though, would be hilarious to make this the actual pronunciation linkfedilink
minus-squareInevitableSwing [none/use name]hexagonhexbear5·1 year ago IPA My brain interprets that as a horrible foreign language so if I want to share a pronunciation for simplicity's sake I use dictionary.com. An example... Segue Definition & Meaning SEG-wey It's not perfect but it's the best site I know. link
minus-squareHumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]hexbear2·1 year agoif it's not on my computer keyboard it's a made up sound! link
don’t have a good answer to OP’s question but i just want to give a shoutout to my fellow IPA literate sickos in this thread fighting the good fight
Death to America
Hexbear won't understand this coded message:
/'dəþ 'tu 'ði æm'εrɪkən 'længwədʒ/ə7
Death to America
It means you say them louder
I have to remind myself not to pronounce /æ/ like Latin “ae”.
Laughing at IPA /æ/ in “American” though, would be hilarious to make this the actual pronunciation
My brain interprets that as a horrible foreign language so if I want to share a pronunciation for simplicity's sake I use dictionary.com. An example...
It's not perfect but it's the best site I know.
if it's not on my computer keyboard it's a made up sound!