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coquelicoq · 1 year

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good news and bad news. the good news is i recently realized i've been pronouncing the letter 'a' wrong in most french words. this is good news because it means that i can now tell the difference between the french [a] sound and the 'a' sound in my native language that is closest to [a] ([æ]), which i guess i was unable to do before, or at least i was unable to tell that i was making the wrong sound. can't fix something you don't know is broken. but now i know!

the bad news is i recently realized i've been pronouncing '-ti-' followed by a vowel as [tj] in many french words where it should actually be [sj]. this is bad news because what the fuck, obviously, of course it is, get with the program brother!!

#the way this abridged dictionary does pronunciation is that it only tells you the pronunciation of words that differ from the norm #and i kept seeing words spelled with 'ti' and then a vowel with a little pronunciation note telling me to pronounce it [tj(vowel)]#and i kept being like i know?? bc i thought it was there to tell me that the 'i' is pronounced as a [j] glide rather than an [i] vowel #like duh?? that's how french phonology works?? it's actually very hard to pronounce an i with a following vowel as [i] and not [j]??#so of course i would pronounce it as a glide there! 🙄#but the note wasn't there because of the [j]! it was there because of the [t]!!#because the actual default is to pronounce 't' as [s] in that context! but i've been defaulting to [t]!!!#i have been pronouncing it right in '-tion'. and i pronounced initiative right [inisjativ]#but i just realized initié is pronounced [inisje] not [initje]#and i looked up ineptie and it is [inɛpsi] 😫 and that one doesn't even have a following vowel...so i need to rethink the environment...#is it just 'ti' followed by a vowel or when word-final?#til you can get halfway through the dictionary before understanding a pronunciation note you keep seeing #no but this is good on balance. because now i understand #french #lecture du dico #phonology #my posts

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