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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 · 11 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 · 3 months 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 · 4 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 · 5 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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solanuma · 5 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 · 1 year 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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arytha · 9 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 · 10 months ago

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Don't get me wrong Beyoncé's voice is beautiful but this is still the worst thing I've ever heard i'm sorry

#beyoncé #beyonce #les choristes #kidding but also not kidding sfjhgjhj #i swear i've seen this before but i'd blocked it from my memory #she's such a pro you can tell she tried to learn the song phonetically but she's struggling so hard #they did her sooo dirty by not just letting her sing the song in english #anyway next time anyone makes fun of our english show them this #Youtube

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touchlikethesun · 11 months ago

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hey kids did you know that linguistics is cool???

#me every time i notice some new little linguistics thing #godddddd it’s so cool #i just put together that embroidered comes from en broderie #perhaps i’m a bit stupid for not realising that before but the phonetic shifts!!!!#anyways linguistics is cool and fun and i sound like a middle school teacher preaching to disinterested kids #but #such is life #linguistics

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howlingwolf23 · 2 years ago

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My sister in law and nibblings are going on a trip, the youngest (8yr old) tried to look up the city.

Can you guess where they are going?

(hint: bugs bunny should have turned left here)

#story time #funny #kids are hilarious #like it sounds close phonetically #spelling

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blackvelvetofnight · 2 years ago

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#the way i memorized the lyrics phonetically when i was a kid cause this song turns my pussy OUT #gotdamn!!!!#ghost in the shell

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theemporium · 1 year ago

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OH MY GOD IM PAK TOO!! TUM KAISE HO?

gahshsjsbsjs me teek ha!! tusi?

#cece answers #god it’s hard to try spell out punjabi words😭#I feel like a wee kid trying to spell phonetically

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bmpmp3 · 2 years ago

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I always really like it when I hear someone say "scourge" and they pronounce it like skowrj or skoorj instead of skerj because there's like a 80% chance the first time they saw the word was either while reading Warriors, Redwall, or those Sonic comics and it makes me happy

#what do they call it. a readers accent? i think its wonderful #this is not facetious whatsoever the only reason i know how to pronounce it is because 1) the redwall cartoons #and 2) i had a weird interest in phonetics and etymology as a kid #that second point is how i know how to pronounce a lot of things actually. i just get curious LOL #but its so sweet i love it. skowrj is music to my ears

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synthbug · 1 year ago

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I have a question about Singapore: when learning how to write, do they teach you the phonetic spelling, and then move on to Chinese characters, or do they start with Chinese characters? Or something else?

OOH THATS A VERY COOL QUESTION !! :3 if we are learning actual words, they must teach both at the same time!! Since chinese characters are not entirely phonetics based, you need to know both the pronunciation and written character to read it ! that's why for younger kids they print worksheets with the phonetics above the characters, but once you get older they just give you the characters and expect you to know how to pronounce them </3

However for like absolute beginners the first thing they usually teach is the tones using the vowel sounds so u can properly use and differentiate the tones later on, so if you wanna be technical it would be some sort of phonetics first, but after that any new words are usually taught with both at the same time :3

#when i say u need to know both pronunciation and written itz cuz there are MAAAANNNY MANY words and phrases with the EXACT same tone #and pronounciation but are totally different written characters with different meanings #conversely there are characters that can change meaning based on pronounciation #like uhm 觉 :) if its pronounced jue it means like feel but if its pronounced jiao it means sleep :3 #this is from a chinese kid so this is from my knowledge of how they teach young kids #idk if the people who take chinese as a third language learn any different but it should be the same!#actually correction chinese is not phonetics based but u can guess for SOME words based on prior knowledge #like 干 and 赶 have similar pronounciations but different tones #but its not always the case like 甜(tian) isnt at all 舌(she) or 甘(gan)#THIS IS A COOL QUESTION THANK YEW :33 #isa rambles

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whales-are-gay · 2 years ago

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college is so cool. everyone i talk to is a massive nerd.

#phonetics prof asking what script the person in the front row is writing his notes in #it's his conscript that he made when he was a kid #prof said that's scary and really cool at the same time #personal post

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