#I pronounce it like “tsis”
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1o1percentmilk · 11 months ago
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me when i got that combination taiwanese accent and american accent so i can't pronounce my zh- sh- ch- and -rs
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sincerelywhistler · 2 years ago
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Lasko’s water elemental listener, Chelan! 🤍🌊
(he/they)
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I’ve been waiting for the day I could have an excuse to project my profound adoration for water onto a headcannoned fellow Native American listener :)
More under the cut!
Professor Chelan Deere (pronounced “shuh-lahn”, he/they) is my listener for Lasky! The first name derives from the traditional Wenatchi name Tsi-Laan, which translates to ‘deep water’. Their family are descendants of the Wenatchi, a tribe from the Washington area that’s surrounded by rivers and are known to be closely bound to water and the gifts it brings. And Deere quite literally translates to “dear” for the sole reason of my dire need for that to be their Lasko-assigned pet name or else I’ll explode k thanks
ALSO! Peep the necklace! It’s Lasko’s air elemental symbol inside a water droplet cause they’re ridiculous like that <3
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apollos-olives · 11 months ago
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I've been trying to learn Tsalagi/Cherokee bc that's what my mom is, but it's an endangered language and it's super hard to find any information so I couldn't find the word "explode" and the order might be wrong, but "kill yourself with fire" would look somewhat like or perhaps nothing at all like this:
ᎠᏓᎯᏍᏗ ᏨᏌ ᎬᏙᏗ ᎠᏥᎸ
And you say the above kind of like this:
a-da-hi-s-di tsu-sa gu-do-di a-tsi-lu
You can hear it pronounced if you look up the words here: https://language.cherokee.org/word-list/
I dont know if the grammar is correct at all with what I wrote but yeah it's something kind of like that.
KILL YOURSELF WITH FIRE LMAOOOOO I ADORE THAT SO MUCH 🙏🙏🙏 THAT'S AMAZING OMG thank you ❤️❤️ that's really cool to see
@gorillawithautism
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constellationkeeper · 1 year ago
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Please note: I am currently up to patch 5.3, in Post-Shadowbringers. I will not interact with Endwalker content to avoid spoilers, and will try to tag the name of the expansions to help others avoid spoilers!
Welcome to my blog! This is where I document the life and times of my Final Fantasy 14 characters. I have a many 14 characters which will all be featured here to some degree, but with a focus on my main WoL, Tsinaan Dakora, my Aura Xaela! I’m mainly a PS4 player so 99% of my screenshots will be vanilla, unless I decide to crack open my dusty PC copy that can barely run haha. I also draw and will try to draw my WoL and OCs a lot even though I’m shy to share! FAQs and more info under the cut.
Eventually I plan to write out bios for all of them, but this will be my starting point, beginning with Tsinaan.
Tsinaan’s look varies a lot between expansions, so I’ll differentiate her looks in the tags! Also, I’ll answer some quick easy questions in this pinned post for easy access:
What is/are Tsinaan’s main class(es)?
I do them all, but her canon classes are AST (main, HLR), DNC (DPS), and GNB (TNK.) She started as an Arcanist/Summoner/Scholar so that will be referenced too. I’m totally gonna talk about her thoughts on all classes, and everything that being a WoL entails.
How do I pronounce her name?
Tsinaan: Si-nahn, [silent T, short ‘si’ as in sip, long ‘nahn’ like naan bread. Sometimes shortened to Tsi, pronounced ‘see.’]
Dakora: Da-kohr-ah [kohr like ‘core.’]
Is Tsinaan your only Warrior of Light?
She is my canon WoL, and in her timeline she carries the title of Warrior of Light/Darkness. However, she is not the only one influenced by the Echo. My fiancee has FF14 OCs who are strongly tied to Tsinaan, and they have also been given the Echo to varying degrees. Tsinaan’s Echo is the most powerful or ‘complete’ of the group, but has the most drastic side effects.
The current known members effected by the echo are;
Tsinaan Dakora
Kinkaze Saizo*
Trya Papaya*
Cvetko Zorasch
Zana’tan Chai**
*owned by my fiancee
**joint character between me and my fiancee
Thank you for spending your time here! Let’s get to know each other and explore Eorzea together, I’m always open to make friends, gush about our silly characters and the FF14 story, and everything in between!
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nochd · 5 months ago
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To elaborate on the explanation above:
-ti- is pronounced "sh" specifically in Latin-derived words and word elements when followed by a vowel. It's not just -tion; think how you pronounce partial and patience.
If you ever do choir singing in Church Latin, you use exactly the same rule to determine when you say "tsi" instead of "ti", with the added condition that it only happens when the -ti- is an unstressed syllable (in the English derivatives of course it's a single consonant, not a syllable at all).
I think the explanation is that in Vulgar Latin or Late Latin or whatever you call it, those were the places where you reduced the syllable -ti- down to a "ty" consonant cluster. And if you pronounce a "ty" consonant cluster -- think of words like nature or statue -- you'll often find a "s" or "ch" sound intruding. So when you're singing or speaking a church ritual, and you're using careful speech and you turn those consonant clusters back into syllables, you can see how you might keep the "s" sound if that's what you've always heard people say.
In any case I'm pretty sure all the Romance languages have carried that sound-change forward and English borrowed the French version.
YOU COULD SPELL "FISH" AS "GHOTI" AND IT WOULD BE PRONOUNCED THE SAME
THIS IS NOT TRUE.
FOR THOSE UNAWARE OF THIS, UH, “FACT,” THE IDEA IS THAT “GHOTI” COULD BE PRONOUNCED “FISH” IF YOU PRONOUNCE THE GH- AS IN “LAUGH,” THE -O- AS IN “WOMEN,” AND THE “TI” AS IN “AMBITION.”
HOWEVER, THIS FAILS TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THAT THE PRONUNCIATION OF LETTERS IS DEPENDENT ON THEIR POSITION WITHIN THE WORD.
AT THE END OF A WORD OR SYLLABLE, “GH” CAN BE PRONOUNCED LIKE THE LETTER F. THIS IS WHY IT’S PRONOUNCED THAT WAY IN “LAUGH” AND “LAUGHTER” AND “ENOUGH” AND, DEPENDING ON WHO YOU ASK, “VAN GOGH.” AT THE BEGINNING OF A WORD OR SYLLABLE, “GH” IS PRONOUNCED AS AN EXTRA-HARD G-SOUND, AS IN “GHOST” AND “GHOUL” AND “GHASTLY.”
LIKEWISE, “TI” IS NOT PRONOUNCED AS “SH” AT THE END OF A WORD. IN “AMBITION,” IT IS ONLY BECAUSE “TI” IS FOLLOWED BY “O” THAT THERE IS AN “SH” SOUND IN THE WORD AT ALL. THIS IS WHY “RATIO” IS PRONOUNCED WITH AN “SH” SOUND, WHILE “MANTIS” IS PRONOUNCED WITH A “T” SOUND. 
IT’S ALSO IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT, IN WORDS LIKE “AMBITION” AND “NATION,” IT’S NOT THAT THE “TI” IS PRONOUNCED LIKE “SH.” “TION” IS A COMPLETE SYLLABLE, PRONOUNCED “SHUN” OR “SHEN.” IF YOU REMOVE ANY OF THE LETTERS, THE PRONUNCIATION WOULD CHANGE.
“ION” DOESN’T HAVE AN SH- SOUND IN IT. “TIN” DOESN’T HAVE AN SH- SOUND IN IT. “TI” DOESN’T HAVE AN SH- SOUND IN IT. “TON” DOESN’T HAVE AN SH- SOUND IN IT. “TIO” ONLY HAS AN SH- SOUND IN IT IF IT’S PRECEDED BY A VOWEL, AS IN “RATIO,” AND EVEN THEN, IT’S PRONOUNCED “SHYO” OR “SHI-O,” DEPENDING ON YOUR ACCENT. 
“O” IS RARELY PRONOUNCED AS IN “WOMEN,” EXCEPT WHEN IT’S IN THE MIDDLE OF A SYLLABLE. 
THAT’S THE THING. “-GH” IS ONLY PRONOUNCED “F” AT THE END OF A SYLLABLE. “O” IS ONLY PRONOUNCED AS IN “WOMEN” IN THE MIDDLE OF A SYLLABLE. “TI-” IS ONLY PRONOUNCED “SH” AT THE BEGINNING OF A CERTAIN SYLLABLES, AND NEVER BY ITSELF.
WHEN ASSEMBLED IN THAT ORDER, NONE OF THOSE PRONUNCIATIONS WOULD APPLY. IF THEY HAD SPELLED IT “GHOTION,” IT WOULD BE PRONOUNCED “GOSHEN.” IF THEY HAD IT “LAUGHOTI,” IT WOULD BE PRONOUNCED “LAFF-OH-TEE.” 
HOWEVER, SPELLED “GHOTI,” THERE’S NO WAY TO PRONOUNCE IT “FISH” UNLESS YOU PRONOUNCE EVERY LETTER INCORRECTLY, IN WHICH CASE YOU’RE NOT PRONOUNCING “GHOTI” AT ALL, YOU’RE PRONOUNCING “FISH.” “GHOTI” IS PRONOUNCED “GOATY.”
NOW, THE ORIGINAL IDEA BEHIND “GHOTI” WAS MAKING FUN OF THE LACK OF RULES GOVERNING ENGLISH SPELLING AND PRONUNCIATION. THIS IS STUPID AS HELL, BECAUSE THEY HAD TO IGNORE A BUNCH OF THE RULES GOVERNING ENGLISH SPELLING AND PRONUNCIATION IN ORDER TO MAKE FUN OF THEIR NON-EXISTENCE.
THEY LITERALLY PRETENDED THE ESTABLISHED PRONUNCIATION CONVENTIONS DIDN’T EXIST JUST SO THEY COULD MAKE FUN OF ENGLISH FOR NOT HAVING ESTABLISHED PRONUNCIATION CONVENTIONS, WHICH IS ESPECIALLY AGGRAVATING BECAUSE THIS COULD EASILY BE ACCOMPLISHED WITH THE EXISTING WORD “COLONEL.” 
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psalmonesermons · 1 year ago
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Faith applied Part 1- faith for healing
Over the next 5 sessions we are going to look at a biblical application of faith in various areas of life. The purpose of these short teachings to inspire you to use your own faith in these areas.
A simple working definition of faith can be 'simply doing what God tells you to do' or else 'trusting God'.
Our focus is to find examples of biblical faith which we might learn from, in the areas of health, finance, family, neighbours and what to do when our faith fails us.
1. Health: The woman who touched the hem [1] of Jesus’ garment
Luke 8:42b But as he went the people thronged him.
43 And a woman having an issue of blood [2] twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians neither could be healed of any,
44 Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched.
45 And Jesus said, who touched me? When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, who touched me?
46 And Jesus said, somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue gone out of me.
47 And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and falling down before him, she declared unto him before all the people for what because she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.
48 And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made you whole; go in peace.
This woman was ritually unclean and so was anything she sat on or touched. The social consequences of her uncleanness meant she was a social outcast just like a leper.
Narrative- the woman was afraid to speak to Jesus, trying to keep her herself hidden, touch was a point of contact for her faith with his authority.
There was instantaneous healing.
The meaning of the hem see {2} below.
Jesus perceived 'virtue' had gone out of him.
Jesus asks 'Who touched me'? The woman self identifies.
Jesus blesses her publicly thus not only healing her but also restoring her status status-by pronouncing her to be no longer unclean or a social outcast. What a healer!
[1] Hem (tassel) of garment-Tsi-Tsit (Numbers 15:38 c.f. Deuteronomy 22:12) blue and white fringes representing the law of God. Reminder/Warning to the Jews to do all the law of God.
[2] Leviticus 15:25 If a woman has a discharge of blood for many days, not at the time of her menstrual impurity, or if she has a discharge beyond the time of her impurity, all the days of the discharge she shall continue in uncleanness. As in the days of her impurity, she shall be unclean.
Do you need to touch the hem of Jesus' garment today by faith? We can draw virtue as healing power by faith today. Jesus never refused to heal anyone nor was he unable to heal anyone (although he prayed for one man's eyes twice).
Amen
Prayer
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thewraith1986 · 3 years ago
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*listening to a scary native story podcast read aloud by non-natives* uhh you're pronouncing it wrong
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maryeve-the-bitch · 3 years ago
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I’ve actually watched a few videos on Canadian raising and think it’s really cool! But *sits down* what’s affrication 👀
🔥🔥 it's a thing we do in Quebecois french and Canadian french excluding Acadian french.
We add s sound after a t only with the vowels i and u.
So ti and tu are pronounced tsi and tsu
And
We add a Z after the letter d also only with the vowels i and u.
So di and du are pronounced dzi and dzu
(of course, french u. /y/ in ipa)
That's why when we say poutine, it sounds like pootsin.
I believe affrication is also a thing in Haitian french.
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mywritingonlyfans · 3 years ago
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to throw in my two cents in the boob convo - boobs is цици in Bulgarian (pronounced tsi-tsi)
that sounds so cute it's like a invitation to squeeze them (like yours or someone else lol) tsi tsi i love it omg 🥺
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zhongliologist · 4 years ago
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Omggggg idk why I care so much but non Chinese speakers: q is usually pronounced as a 'ts' sound like a drumset hi hat cymbal sound so qiqi is tsi tsi and Jean 琴 is tsin.
ALSO x is basically an s if u close ur jaw adkfhskfjdjs xiangling is siangling, xingqiu is sing tsi o and xingyan is sin yang akdjsjejfhfjkdfhfb I'm so sorryyyyy
Q is the aspirated one isn't it?? And the J is a little bit harder/ unaspirated. It's kinda hard to grasp and the nearest most non Chinese could do is to make it sound like "ch" even though the "ch" sound is closer to "zh",,, and the ts sound could also be applied to "c"....
....ngl u cant rlly describe these in writing. You have to hear the differences in sound.
so i just....dont really care anymore and just continue talking even if i sound weird,,,, and sometimes speakers shorten the words that im very very confused myself whshshw ((i was once greeted zhao an, but it doesnt sound like zhao an and i was ??????))
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plotbunny-bundle · 4 years ago
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Bunny plays Makeb
Imp side on my agent
First thought: Boy have I been pronouncing Cytharat’s name wrong. It’s not a bad name. It’s kinda cool but also sounds like “Sith-a-rat” 
Isn’t there a translation of Sith that’s spelled like “Tsis” said like Sith but means Perfect? if so I’m headcanoning that’s the root of the prefix. 
It’s Cool to meet Darth Marr on the Imperial Side. He’s pretty chill for a Sith. Very put together. Marr doesn’t punish you for talking back or shit talking the Empire. He says “watch your tone but you’re not wrong”. You can only piss him off by accusing him of sending you on a suicide mission. He’s really trying for the Empire. He's really trying to do his job and save the Empire. Then you read his codex and find out he wants to go out and fight but rarely can. Wow is he a dedicated Sith. 
third thought is This is Suicide mission. the whole team is disposable. Katha Niar tells you they’re capable but then you get the Codex and you find out she’s not good at her new job. She has high casualty rates. Cytharat was in jail! 
Marr was looking for “high loyalty levels and a psychological state amenable to a suicide mission” This is a suicide mission. You can tell from the team. You have a disgraced Sith Lord, a Logistics officer playing Watcher (Lydalea is still salty about that.Where are the other ex intel people?), a third of the team of the team are aliens which isn’t a bad thing but is bad sign knowing the Empire, you have ex Malgus people. All lead by the Former Cipher Nine who got her identity exposed last year, one of the last known peices of Imp Intel. All promised a reward if they surive. 
Lydalea thought it was a test but its more then a test. This is suicide. 
But she’s done more with less. She stopped the Star Cabal with a brain damaged Keeper, a sociopathic alien, a creepy half alien old man, a cowardly acolyte and a nice but creepy half alien young man. She took down Ardun Kothe with less. She can save the Empire with scraps another few times.
(disclaimer above isn’t what I think of the agent companions but what my agent thinks of them. They grew on her but she’s still a very imperial human and kinda judgey.) 
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uiruu · 6 years ago
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in all the Romance languages, the letters c and g diverged before the letters i and e. typically ca is /ka/, ci is /si/ or /tʃi/ (english ch sound) or in some dialects of spanish /θi/ (which is the english th sound). since in spanish it was probably originally /tsi/, its not that weird that it become dental, and its not weird that it merged with /s/ in the other dialects. 
ga is pretty much always /ga/, and gi is pretty uniformly /dʒi/ or /ʒi/, which sound like the english j and the french j respectively . in spanish it got devoiced to /ʃ/ at some point, sounding like the sh in “she”. also, after vowels in spanish, /g/, /b/, and /d/ weaken to fricatives (or if youre more pedantic, approximanty-fricativey-things), so ba sounds like /ba/, but aba sounds like /aβa/, which is like doing a /v/ sound but with just your lips, no bottom teeth. g between vowels also did this, becoming /ɣ/, so aga would be /aɣa/, which is a hard sound to describe but it’s just like a g that you dont linger on, you just glide over it, kinda just briefly hinting at it haha. you can hear it if you listen to spanish words that have a g between vowels. 
so, spanish ga became /ɣa/ if there was a vowel before it, and spanish gi became /ʃi/, like “she”. but then for some reason spanish /ʃ/ shifted to /x/, which is the sound of ch in german, and the familiar spanish j sound. thats why mexico is pronounced mehiko or mekhiko or however you wanna see it, when the aztecs pronounced it meshiko.
so here’s what i’m trying to point out:
through roundabout ways and odd paths, ga and gi are /ɣa/ and /xi/. and obviously, gi and gui would be /xi/ and /ɣi/.
x and ɣ are both velar fricatives. x is the voiceless velar fricative, ɣ is the voiced velar fricative. so depending on what vowel it’s before, a g in spanish can be voiced or voiceless, but otherwise the same. your mouth is in the same shape, you just either use your vocal cords or you dont. ga and gi originally were the same sound, both just being a plain /g/, and then went in wildly different directions for a while, before ending up back at the same sound, with the only difference being voice. that’s kinda wild lol. 
its like if for some reason ba changed to /va/, and bi changed to /fi/. wild lol
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smoothshift · 6 years ago
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I drove a Mk7 GTI, and im not sure.... via /r/cars
I drove a Mk7 GTI, and im not sure....
I have been car shopping.
Now, for me, this is a long and arduous process. I sometimes put months of time into shopping, budgeting, deciding if I want to pay cash or finance, etc...
I wanted to find a decent condition manual car, I was okay with highish mileage just didn't want any body rot since I am equipped to handle most mechanical repairs in my own garage. This, however, presented somewhat of a problem. I couldn't find clean body cars with the cash money I wanted to spend on one that was in any kind of "performance" category. I tried to fund sub $5000 Miatas that weren't destroyed, but I kept finding cars with rust rot on the rockers among other problem that the sellers wanted way too much money for.
So, I defaulted to looking for something in warranty, something newer, something I could just make payments on and put a gracious down payment on. After scouring Autotrader for multiple days, I found worked myself down to two options, both Volkswagen.
One was a 2014 Jetta (golf) Sportwagen TDI. It had 63K miles on the clock, 1 owner, had been repaired as part of VW's Diesel emissions ordeal, and came with a 2 year 24K bumper to bumper warranty, and was in very good shape from the photos. At $11K it was worth a look.
I loved the Sportwagen, It had tons of trunk space, a punchy diesel engine with torque for days, fantastic throttle response and a direct feeling shifter. I loved everything but the dated infotainment system and the two front wheel bearings that were making a ton of noise, and the tires that were a brand I couldn't pronounce. I haggled back and fourth with the sales person, and asked for them to call me back after fixing the wheel bearings. They called back, and informed me it was sold. Bummer.
The other option was a 2016 GTI S. It was absolute base model; Clark plaid interior, with a manual gearbox, no sunroof, with 42K miles at $16,900 it seemed like a reasonably good price. The ride was firm but compliant, the MK7's clark plaid seats were supportive and more bolstered than in the Mk6 and Mk5 models. The shifter felt nearly identical to the TDI Sportwagen, the engine sounded great and eager, and dead silent at idle, and the infotainment system supported Android Auto/Carplay, so it worked just like my smart phone.
Unfortunately, I had to look at this car after a long and tiring day of work, and it was an hour drive during rush hour, so I was already in kind of a bad mood when I got there.
The sales person was very kind, let me do my own thing and told me to take my time, so I found the nearest expressway entrance, dropped into 2nd gear, and opened up the taps, spinning the 2.0L TSI engine up to 7000 RPM.
It was fast, I recall renting a V6 Mustang and comparatively this is on par with it, but I couldn't wrap my head around the clutch. It seemed to have two different spring rates, and when shifting quickly at high RPM, it seemed to have a delay, like I could lift my foot off of the clutch faster than the spring could respond. I don't know if this is because the car sat for a long time, or if its just how VW sprung the clutch level and/or the hydraulics, but it felt weird.
Partner this with driving it in stop and go traffic, it reminded me of why I moved over to a car with an automatic transmission. The GTI and I just... didn't bond. I am wondering if it was just a bad first date, where everything just didn't go as planned, and it was nobody's fault, the power was great, the road manners were amazing, it was fun to dart around traffic, but that I just keep hanging on that clutch and wondering if something was actually wrong with it, or if I was just imagining things.
I got a quote for the GTI, was able to get them to take some money off because it had been sitting for 5 months unowned, but I just couldnt find the heart to pull the trigger at the exact moment. I told them I would call back the next day with a decision, and I am dreading it, because I should like this car, but something is just squeezing at my chest saying not to make the purchase.
Anybody with a manual GTI have a similar experience? Am I imagining things? Should I just man up and buy this thing and love it for its lack of perfection?
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anyonghalimaw · 2 years ago
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super paper mario mutuals how do u guys pronounce dimentios name. i pronounce it like its latin (di-men-tsi-o) because theres something wrong with me
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micronecro · 6 years ago
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hey this might be kind of a weird question but do you have any tips for people who wanna try recording an utau voicebank
-Noise remover (in post-production when you can isolate the exact noise manually.)
-record with OREMO, generate an OTO with SetParam, make your peace with god and look up some tutorials for cleaning up your result
-Do the hiragana/CV lists, it’s good practice
-’Wo’ is a ‘uo’ sound
-For recording in Japanese characters (highly advised): Use Wikipedia’s readings. Some people have really weird ways of translating it. Lack of familiarity with English phonetics I guess
-づ is subjective - wikipedia calls this sound ‘tzu’, but most people do ‘dzu’
-ヴ strings are ‘V’ sounds. It’s a voiced bilabial frictive, which is to ‘the spanish V, not the english V’. I don’t know enough about consonants so I just set my teeth on the bottom of the inside of my lip when I pronounce it
-Most VCVs have a “du/tu” and “di/ti” made using と (so “du” is とぅ). Not to be mistaken with like, づぃ (Dzi) or つぃ (Tsi). I hate the extra D/T strings in VCV lists coincidentally
-look into the phonetic sound of the vowels. Japanese is very flat, so “uu” in English, where there’s a little tail at the end, is very unlike Japanese, where the sound is consistent all the way through. You can chop it off in post for CV but not for VCV, so be careful
-The fact VCV adds all these extra sounds and problems you can’t edit out is why you record single-sound first. Like, at LEAST eight times.
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phonaesthemes · 6 years ago
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hey so OFFQc is a pretty cool resource if you’re interested in learning more about the particularities of french spoken in quebec (and, to a certain extent, elsewhere in canada), especially since most language courses (in my experience) focus on “standard” french, even those taught in anglophone canada. the author covers everything from pronunciation to idioms to vocab and slang.
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for instance, there’re entries like this about “tu” constructions used in asking yes-no questions
C’est cher. It’s expensive. C’est-tu cher? Is it expensive?
C’est bon. It’s good. C’est-tu bon? Is it good?
J’ai raison. I’m right. J’ai-tu raison? Am I right?
Tu m’aimes. You love me. Tu m’aimes-tu? Do you love me?
J’ai fait ça. I did that. J’ai-tu fait ça? Did I do that?
T’as appelé. You called. T’as-tu appelé? Did you call?
Tu is placed after the conjugated verb (c’est-tu bon?). In composed tenses (like the passé composé), the tu is placed after the auxiliary, not the past participle (j’ai-tufait ça?).
or entries like this about how quebec french turns alveolar stops into affricates before high front vowels (affectionately called “dzidu” and “tsitsu” by the author)
When the letter doccurs before the French i or usound, it’s pronounced dz.
Di and du are pronounced dzi and dzu.
When the letter t occurs before the French i or u sound, it’s pronounced ts.
Ti and tu are pronounced tsi and tsu.
To describe this phenomenon (and to help you remember), a word that contains the sounds dzi or dzuis called a dzidzu word. A word that contains the sounds tsi or tsu is called a tsitsu word.
For example, différent is a dzidzu word. It’s pronounced dzifférent in Québec. Tube is a tsitsu word. It’s pronounced tsube. On the other hand, doux is not dzidzuated and matin is not tsitsuated. That’s because the letters d and t in those words are not followed by the French i or u sounds.
there are also a whole bunch of audio transcripts and videos if you wanna hear examples. anyway there’s SO MUCH and i can’t sum it all up, but definitely have a look if you’re curious about one of canada’s varieties of french, or if you wanna sound a little more ~natural~ when you’re visiting la belle province
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