#Audio Mack

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i am so sorry but there is nothing more comically displeasing to the ear than the sounds of two people making out

[frankielbbh]

the story of us by taylor swift is SOOOO angsty s3 tyrus pleASE

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just wanted to let you guys know that the new pod cover goes so hard

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The gods may throw a dice Their minds as cold as ice And someone way down here Loses someone dear

The winner takes it all

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Omg after 17 years Not Going Out finally has audio description. 🙏🙏🙏

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Song: Ranch Night Artist: Harry Mack From: Slime Rancher

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New Audio: The Real Mack The Knife Returns with Sensual "Paris Séduit"

New Audio: The Real Mack The Knife Returns with Sensual "Paris Séduit" @heygroover @romainpalmieri @DorianPerron

The Real Mack The Knife is the creative project of a rather mysterious and prolific American-based electronic music producer. His latest single “Paris Séduit” is a lush and sensual dance pop tune featuring layers of arpeggiated synths, skittering beats and remarkably catchy hooks paired with a sultrily delivered vocals in French and English. Resembling a sleek synthesis of Ibiza house and French…

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YOUR GENDER IS SO COOL!!!!!!!🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈💛🩵

Nah it’s fugly

But thankssss

[bargainsleuthbooks]

Every Time I Go On Vacation, Someone Dies by Catherine Mack #AudiobookReview #NetGalley #MacMillanAudio #CozyMystery

I just listened to a fantastic contemporary #cozymystery that's also a behind-the-scenes look at publishing world. #EveryTimeIGoOnVacationSomeoneDies is laugh out loud funny, and a good mystery, too! #Bookreview #audiobook #macmillanaudio #netgalley

Ten days, eight suspects, six cities, five authors, three bodies . . . one trip to die for. All that bestselling author Eleanor Dash wants is to get through her book tour in Italy and kill off her main character, Connor Smith, in the next in her Vacation Mysteries series―is that too much to ask? Clearly, because when an attempt is made on the real Connor’s life―the handsome but infuriating con…

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Having all (well, most for now) of your songs played on shuffle can lead to some silly stuff, although in this case I couldn't help but try to partially recreate one example of this when I found out that my phone put "Devil in the Churchyard" from Hunt: Showdown just before "Mission Accomplished" from Spiral Knights. Please listen for yourself.

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Ever wanted to know how to pronounce the name of our favorite Ur copper merchant, Ea-nāṣir? If you haven't looked it up, I can almost guarantee that you are saying it wrong, but fret not. I will share the secret with you (or at least the buest guess modern experts have).

The reconstruction of how to pronounce his name currently looks like this in the IPA:

[e.a.ˈnaː.t͡sʼiʁ]

If that looks daunting, keep reading.

While Ea-nāṣir may be remembered to us as a Sumerian, he did not speak Sumerian. The Sumerian language was all but extinct in his day, and Sumerians now spoke an unrelated language called Akkadian.

The infamous complaint tablets are written in Akkadian Cuneiform, which is a complicated writing system that it is difficult to figure out the pronunciation of after the fact. Pronunciations have shifted considerably during the time that modern people have studied it. All the same, we have a "buest guess" at pronunciation.

The first thing to note is that Akkadian has phonemic vowel quantity, which is a fancy way if saying that the length of a vowel is really important. Ea-nāṣir's name has four vowels, and three are short and one is long. The long one is the A with a bar on top (called a macron, pronounced MACK-ron or MAKE-ron). If you see that symbol in other languages it is probably also a long vowel (you'll see this in Arabic, Latin, and many other languages).

This also tells us where to stress the word. While Akkadian has somewhat complicated rules for stress, Ea-nāṣir's case is simple: stress the syllable with the long vowel.

The vowels themselves are the vowels you would find in Spanish, Japanese or Swahili: the E is closest to the English vowel in dress, the As are between trap and palm, just like Spanish gato, and the I is somewhere around sheep or fear.

So far, intuitively, you're probably pronouncing it something like "e-a-NAW-sir", which is getting closer to the accurate idea, but we haven't looked at the consonants yet, and unfortunately they are the hardest parts (for an English speaker).

The N is just a regular N. This isn't too surprising since N is one of the single most common sounds across all spoken languages (perhaps only beaten by M).

The R, while contested among scholars, seems to be leaning towards a "back R" or "guttural R", the way French people and some Germans do it.

That leaves the ṣ. Oh boy. It is, first of all, an affricate, like the Z in pizza. "e-a-NAAT-sir" would as such be a good try. It is, however, also something called an ejective, which is a notoriously tricky type of consonant where you block the airflow while saying it, only to release it immediately after.

You know the T-dropping that some brits do, or the way you rapidly close off air flow at the back of your throat when saying ah-ah-ah (and perhaps wagging your finger)? Try putting an air release like that right after the ts sound. If the closest you get is "e-a-NAT-suh-ir" then you are already doing a good job.

If you are a perfectionist, here is an old youtube video of a person making the noise, with decent audio.

And that's it, really. That is a complete breakdown of the best guess we have at how Ea-nāṣir's name would have been pronounced.