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moinsbienquekaworu · 2 years ago

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Okay beloved American mutuals (@zeawesomebirdie @aerie-dwelling @storm-of-feathers) I have a Question for you: in morphosyntax class we learnt about the irrealis mode, which is basically when the sentence is about something that isn't actually happening (if they did this, things like that.) But the question is, how would you pronounce irrealis? If you're fine with a recording that would be super cool but honestly even just a comparison to other words, like "the e sound of evEn", would work well too. We're just wondering how to actual say the word since our teacher has a shit accent :')

#when i say shit accent i mean thick thick french accent #and she makes worse grammar mistakes than the students which.#'don't afraid it will be more simple in the test' ma'am why are you teaching us #i say recording but i get it if you don't want to i would not hold it against you #it's just a weird niche grammar term and we're trying to guess how natives would say it #thought i'd ask my Esteemed Friends From Abroad y'know #sorry if you didn't want to be tagged that's because i like you #wow i have a ramble tag now

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