#rhotics

[creeperking00-blog1]

odd (slight) Nonrhoticity in bettina levy's amerikan english

@bettinalevyisdetermined

i wish to point out to you (if u had not already known urself) that u hav an odd form of lack of r pronunciation on words like forward (often being pronounced like "foe ward") with the first r noise disappearing all together yet strangly keeping inline with standard pronunsiation with the sekond r noise. its rather odd and kould u think of any possable reson u do this / hav u notissed anyone else around u also do this

get bak to me when possable and

God bless ♥

[goodmorninglovelies42]

Since the Brits love to lovingly lecture us Americans about football and British things in Ted Lasso (which I appreciate!), I want to do my part to educate on one American misconception that drives me crazy:

Kansas isn’t the south. It’s the Midwest. Ted’s accent isn’t a southern accent. Jason Sudeikis is putting on kind of a hokey, country accent. But it’s not southern.

Credentials: I’m from the south and have a southern accent.

[vimbry]

that was not as free or as improvisational as we like, because in our free improvisation - I! the free improvisation Band leada! - takes over. so please, ladies and gentlemen, upon this cue - SCREAM AS IF YOU'RE IN HELL!

[cd-covington]

Rhotics aren't real

I mean, in the headline up there, R appears 3 times but is made by at least 2 distinct vocal gestures and my native-US-English-speaking ears interpret it as the same sound. And if you're from Boston, the second word doesn't even have an R in it (but there's a ghost of it on the A).

In German, there are at least 3 different ways to pronounce an R, depending on where it is in the word and/or your dialect. Spanish has a trilled R, and Japanese has a coronal tap that's romanized as either R or L. Scots uses this same coronal tap in words like "bairn." (The coronal tap is the sound (US) English speakers use for D and T in the phrase "Adam edited it," and I daresay we wouldn't interpret that as "Aram erired it.")

So what the fuck is an R?

Linguists don't fucking know. There's this software called Praat written and maintained by a linguistics professor in the Netherlands that lets you take recordings of speech and turn them into waveforms and spectrograms, which you can then analyze. You can see where the vowels are and the sibilants, nasals, and stops, but the nebulous group of sounds included in the letter R aren't easy to visualize. You can see ghosts of their presence in the deformation of vowel formant frequencies, but there's nothing we can point to and say "THIS! THIS is an R!"

So your brain hears this sound that isn't this and isn't that and isn't this other thing or that other thing, and decides it's an R because it doesn't know what else to do with it.

R has that "behold! a man!" energy and I think that's beautiful.

If you liked this post, check out my Kickstarter, where I'll be writing a book with some weird linguistic facts that you can use to give your characters better voices.

[alexanderpearce]

[existencebringsonlypain]

anyone else like. take on a different way of pronouncing vowels and consonants when speaking different languages or is that just what accents are

[saintbleeding]

looking thru my writing wips/to-be-published stuff is SO funny bc it’s litchrally just

[saint’s psychosexual obsession w s4 martin]

[saint’s psychosexual obsession w s4 martin]

[saint’s psychosexual obsession w s4 martin but in the victorian era]

[saint’s psychosexual obsession w s4 martin]

[saint’s psychosexual obsession w s4 martin]

[saint’s psychosexual obsession w s4 martin]

[yooitsyorick]

Another member of the rhotic quartet, how nice

[proto-language]

9-1-1 is not a show i have ever seen in my life but i HAVE seen vast quantities of gifsets of it and let me tell you i have never been as surprised as just now when i learnt that the actor who plays the newly-bisexualised blorbo is, in fact, english.

[thetetrisco]

I would like to remind people that I am:

— PRO RECOVERY.

— PRO GOOD FAITH.

— PRO CONSENT (NO MEANS NO).

— PRO PALESTINE

— BELIEVE NUMBER NAMES SHOULD NOT BE TREATED LIKE CLOSED CULTURES AND THUS ARE NOT OEA SPECIFIC (AND AGAINST NUMBER STRAINS IF YOU HAVE NOT EXPERIENCED OEA, THAT IS WEIRD).

— ANTI ENDOGENIC / NON-TRAUMAGENIC.

— ANTI PROSHIP

— ANTI DDLG

— ANTI RADICAL QUEER.

— ANTI “IRL”.

— ANTI “DOUBLES”.

— ANTI GENOCIDE.

— ANTI TRANS-ID’S.

— ANTI ALTER RACE.

— ANTI CREATOR DRAMA.

— ANTI TEXT-STUTTER (BECAUSE IT MOCKS SPEECH IMPEDIMENTS).

— ANTI TEXT-RHOTICITY (BECAUSE IT MOCKS SPEECH IMPEDIMENTS).

— AGAINST PREDATOR PRIVACY (AS PRIVACY GIVES THEM MORE VICTIMS).

[fisherrprince]

Americans will be like lol ur accent but we can’t even say zoroark

[quatregats]

This is probably Bush and also Pullings's native dialect (though I have many MANY doubts about what exactly the methodology being used here was)

[captainclickycat]

One small detail I quite liked about Kevin Can Fuck Himself is the acknowledgement of the fact that American accents (or some specific ones anyway) pronounce names like "Patty" and "Paddy" so they sound identical and that gets weirdly confusing at times.

I once spent ages not knowing what the gender of a particular podcast character was supposed to be in an audio sketch because I couldn't tell if their name was "Maddy" or "Matty"

[doompy-dread]

unfunny doodle #4852

[clove-pinks]

Yes I'm from New England, I know how to pronounce place names such as Leicester and Quonochontaug. Pawtucket, Worcester, just rolls off the tongue!