#digraphic

[magistralucis]

pronouncing the necron 'sz': personal rating list*

broke: /s/ only ('seras')

woke: /z/ only ('zeras')

provoke: /s/ and /z/ pronounced separately ('s-ze-ras')

bespoke: /ʂ/ or /ʃ/ ('scheras')

invoke: tensed fricative /s͈/ ('sseras')

misspoke: /s/ but evil ('ßeras')

(* Further notes in tags.)

[velaraffricate]

god i wish latin'd had /ʃ/ so we could have a proper letter for it in our alphabet

[o-wise-corvid]

Dathomir Daily

Tunorr su nī sho thol’onzhul. (Look me in the eye.)

(Toonorr soo neye shah thahl-onzh-ool.)

This is a statement used like “give it to me straight” or “come clean”. Eye contact isn’t usually done outside of intimate relationships of family or close loved ones. Otherwise it’s seen as threatening.

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[kelasian]

yorév sëbán gháziriyer dathá ḫáwasësaḥ yóqir búrm ahah

[natequarter]

i love the ship name thomphrey. it's like, how many times can we abuse the letter h before it gives up?

[sera-wasnever]

Bless this random 1684 woman hand writing her recipe book for including a legend for the abbreviations she uses :')

[szaalek-czaje]

you are no longer tea D:

I'M STILL CUP OF TEA! Just in Czech* now.

[tobacconist]

what was everyones most insufferable childhood trait mine was that i refused to use paragraphs all through highschool and used pilcrows instead and even my teachers gave up arguing after a while because i would stubbornly insist it was more economical and if it was good enough for the holy bible it should be good enough for them

[poinsciuri]

wanna see a really funny stretch?

girl. the chemical formula of table salt is NaCl

[annikathewitch]

Atwùrmà nìhuyo: lhìñàn te mehi tikhìshè dihùjinathè

/a:θəɾma nihu:jo: ɫiɲan te: me:hi: ti:kʰiʃe di:həχi:na:tʰe me:hi:/

New game: guess what language I'm speaking.

[catboydan]

How do you pronounce the <ng> in the word "dinghy", as in a small boat?

I'm looking for answers from native or near-native English speakers, along with if you've heard this word spoken aloud before, and I've provided explanations of the 3 common <ng> pronunciations here:

/dɪŋi/ ding-y, rhymes with "thingy", with the from "singer" and no sound. click here for audio of this pronunciation

/dɪŋgi/ ding-gy, with the sound from the in "finger", has a hard sound. click here for audio

/dɪndʒi/ dindge-y, rhymes with "cringey". click here for audio

please feel free to put your selection + where you're from in the notes if you want to!

[ghelgheli]

if the nodes on the reblog graph feature were accounts rather than individual reblogs i think it would be possible to manufacture a non-planar reblog graph if you could get together five people and produce K5 (or, perhaps more interestingly, six people to coordinate the utility graph)

[hanaasbananas]

said "sup guys" to my spelling group today and was immediately humbled by an eight year old going "miss said 'sup!' Miss are you trying to do slang?" followed up five minutes later-while I'm trying to teach 'ei' words- with "miss were you being cool?" while I'm just stood there in my pink hello kitty jumper, grey love heart hijab and rainbow platform converse like "am I NOT???"

[blepzebul]

after all this time, i’ve come to the conclusion that a lot of topics stick in my head if you break down their etymology

[natequarter]

is it me or is the english /u/ a radically different sound to the french /u/

[quilveor]

I want to put ONE point up to argue against original message.

I am Polish. We pronounce "w" like the english "v".

This lets me treat "owo" and "uwu" like hard-sounding words, and not the weak puny "ołło" that englishmen do. There is power in those. Poverr, even.

Anyway Welsh is fucking awesome, you go dragons! Some day I'll try to learn it proper just because it would be REALLY COOL, I only know some words so far and biiiits of grammar [as I use it wildly whenever I need "draconic"], and i'm TRYING to learn pronunciation

as a welsh person i want you all to accept that W is a vowel because honestly it makes pronouncing acronyms so much easier. wlw becomes ‘ooloo’, wjec becomes ‘oojeck’, love yourselves and stop giving us shit when we tell you welsh has 7 vowels. english actually has 15 vowel sounds but because y’all only use 5 letters you have to rely on a spelling system devised by satan