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unamusedyams · 2 years ago

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first polly fanart

#ace attorney #apollo justice #aj aa #fanart #meme #username is based on a kid from high school who phonetically pronounced apollo as #''a poyo''#in english lit #(pollo = chicken in spanish)#yams art

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canisalbus · 9 months ago

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Different Italian anon, but the thing with Tuscan C is that it's pronounced like a very strong H sound, which is extra weird cuz the letter H makes no sound in Italian, normally. It sounds the way Spanish pronounce the J. We say it's "aspirato". So then people from there will say things like Hoha Hola (coca cola), and it's funny. It's also extremely contagious, I got family in Florence, you spend 3 days with them you start doing it too before you even realize.

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#that sounds really endearing actually #answered #anonymous #this is entirely beside the point but I still feel sort of bamboozled by languages that have silent letters #or when letters have multiple pronunciations that vary wildly from word to word #and when the sound and the letter don't seem to match like how J sounds very close to H in Spanish like you mentioned #I'm generalizing a little but none of these are really a thing in Finnish #in Finnish words are pretty much always pronounced the way they are written if that makes sense #I don't know the language terminology but I think phonetic spelling is what you call it #each letter represents a specific sound and you string those together #when you hear a word you can always tell how it's written and when you read a word you know how to pronounce it #even if you're encountering the word for the first time and have no idea what it means #it's comparatively direct and predictable there's practically no need for guessing or memorizing #also the stress is always on the first syllabe and it's so subtle it might as well not be there at all #which sometimes makes spoken Finnish and Finnish accent sound kind of monotonous there isn't a lot of intonation #I was extremely confused by the concept of spelling bees as a kid #anyway long tag ramble but this stuff is just interesting to me

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ssruis · 24 days ago

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B4 I actually watched stories and was just reading the events on the god forsaken fandom wiki I was pronouncing emu/nene as eemu/neenee in my head… I could say “I don’t know Japanese” as a reason but English also favors the [e] pronunciation of “e” vs [i] (i.e bed vs see) in situations like this. My excuse for emu is the bird but idk what happened with nene. I think im just stupid. Muscle memory phonics failed me. Child left behind. Girl you know how words like emulsify and never/vender are pronounced.

#I was also dropping the e in kanade/kohane but I can blame French for that.#I had a whole phonics thing in the tags and then tumblr deleted the post and I’m not rewriting it so instead you’re getting the scarier fact #that teachers are no longer teaching a phonetics based approach to learning to read #and instead emphasizing the uhhh. ‘use context clues to figure out what the sentence says’ approach.#& now kids Can’t Fuckin Read. ‘why is a large population of America semi illiterate’#ask George Bush. no kid left behind is actually leaving kids behind.#oh right the reason I made this post is because I kept calling emu weemu in my head & nene neeners so now I have to fight with my brain #about pronunciation. get rid of the nicknames u are fucking up.#mine

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steamedlotusroot · 2 months ago

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reminder that ao guang, dragon king of the east sea, has a son and a daughter named “third kid” and “dragon girl” respectively

#for legal reasons this is a JOKE …. sorta #also this is if you accept the idea that longnü (dragon girl)’s dad is ao guang (longnü as in guanyin’s attendant/disciple)#the “bing” in ao bing is often used to replace the letter C in chinese #though it makes more sense to translate it as “three”#but your third son being named “kid C” is similarly funny #bing is 丙 from the heavenly stems (abcd would be translated into 甲乙丙丁)#ao guang what were you on. i just wanna talk #very reminiscent of li jing’s sons being “gold” “wood” and “??????” actually #and then him suddenly having a daughter in jttw whose name actually has meaning #(irl explanation is that the li brothers’ names were phonetically translated into chinese so their meanings are a little goofy)#i KNOWWW legit names like “octavian” denoting numbers exist but when i read “ao bing” and “longnü” in chinese i just giggle #anyway here is my mythology infodump for the day feel free to correct me if i got something wrong /gen #jttw #journey to the west #chinese mythology #ao guang #ao bing #longnü #should i tag lmk? ao guang is a character in lmk…..#eh whatever

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mhaccunoval · 3 months ago

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i need to fuck donny up more. not with more trauma. with a silly beam

#mhac.txt #CIFL #such as fucking him over with his first language being spanish #i already think about him teaching the kids but that's not enough #i need him to fuck up words like nonbinary because his brain reads spanish phonetics for a split second

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pir8core · 13 days ago

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moving on after this 8ecause this is a stupid fucking thing for someone to 8e getting so heated a8out 8ut i dont think this ^ argument means much of value to 8e honest. i know what a standard is. i understand that if everyone in the world knew it then everyone in the world would know it. however the reality is that not everyone in the world knows it, and it will never 8e known 8y everyone in the world. this makes it less practical for actual real life applic8ion than using common words. i dont think that it really makes much sense to push this standard either. "memorise this list of words" is a 8ig ask for a lot of people and especially for people who may rarely use it or may not encounter those words in the rest of their life. i can only give my opinions as an english speaker 8ut i imagine theres 8arriers & limit8ions for people who use other languages as well. and to top it off i think we should always 8e a little skeptical of any proposed "standard" as it feels a little stupid to say "every child in the world should 8e taught this exact thing in this way"

#even if every single school in the world taught it to every single kid. there will still 8e people who dont know it. who prefer to use #other methods for various reasons.#phonetic alpha8et

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tentechbiolognostic · 4 months ago

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oh yeah the homestuck cherubs, right, fuckin uhhh calpol and calprofen

#homestuck #apparently calpol isnt a thing in the us so sorry to the americans who dont get to get this joke #explanation:#calpol is a brand of paracetamol for children and people who cant eat tablets #calprofen is ibuprofen of the same brand #calpol and calprofen are phonetically similar enough to calliope and caliborn for me to find this funny #calpol is also a common cause of child poisoning because it tastes nice and its medicine and its for kids #so that is the explanation of the joke #well the child poisoning bit isnt relevant thats just a fun fact

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solanuuma · 2 months ago

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#i didnt understand a lick of russian when they used to play this on tv #but the line ''не могу я это сделать не могу''#seared itself into my kid brain phonetically #to the extend that i was able to remember understand and search it 2 decades later #crazy how that works #still really good song btw #Youtube

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phe-purple-parade · 11 months ago

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Child me feeling excited:

*inhale* SQUEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAALLL!!!!!!

Adult me stimming out excitement:

squeak! ... squeak! ........squawk.... squeak >:) .......... *inhale* *voiceless squealing & bilabial fricative sounds*

#when i learnt about stimming & emotional regulation. my childhood filled with squealing & kicking my legs made sense haha #and those memories became even sweeter to me. i was stimming! i was so happy that i could not contain it! i was a kid full of autistic joy!#love how as a kid it was for stuff like sleepovers or xmas or birthdays & now it's like. i was just thinking about The Things lol #or not even that sometimes i just get that rush of elation unprompted and have to release it #i think my squealing as a kid was exclusively egressive but now i switch between ingressive & egressive for squeaks. v fun #discovering/realising/exploring new stims my beloved #i think learning all the places & manners of articulation in phonetics rly upped my vocal stim game lol #stimming

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partlysunny15 · 6 months ago

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my little cousin finished 2nd grade and they did one of those summer bucket list fill in sheets and in the box that said “this summer I’m going to read…” he wrote “nothing” and my aunt put it on her snapchat story like are we proud or??? he didn’t even leave it blank, he literally wrote the word nothing. this kid is not going to touch a book until august and then all the parents wonder why their kids are still reading at an elementary level when they get to middle school

#I used to tutor him and his reading is actually so bad I didn’t even know how to help #the lack of phonetic learning is already a terrible foundation #but then none of the kids read outside of the 7 hours of the school day #I can gaurentee this kid has never been to our public library and they live 7 minutes from it #this generation is going to have such high illiteracy rates it’s not even funny anymore #school #my posts #reading #family

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arytha · 7 months ago

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today on mara is still struggling to learn chinese very slowly in the most inefficient way: got door (门) and the plural modifier (们) mixed up and could not for the life of me figure out why 开门 meant 'open the door' until i put it into google and realized the error of my ways

#its a slow learning process but in getting there. rookie mistake i know #BUT HEY i can now read the entire sentence that contained 开门.#which in this case was '小姐你开门啊!'#i think some of my difficulty with it is that i cant sound out phonetics which was how i learned how to read english as a kid #i just gotta. memorize hanzi 👍 which is actually happening for me so yay. its just taking a million years for my fish brain #mara reads #<- technically

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lecoindecachou · 8 months ago

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