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[itsrapsodia]

in the tags of that undertale post you ask how in english we tell whether vowels are read together or as separate beats and how in english we dont use marks like dipthongs - the thing you have to understand about english is that the rules are stupid and also do not matter, so we dont know. there is no mark to tell you it is simply intuition and hearing other people say it and if you learn the word by hearing someone say it in a way not in line with the general consensus, oh well!

but for real ‘appreciation’ comes from both latin and french and the c is pronounced with a ‘sh’ sound, and in english usually if theres an i and an a next to each other, almost always theyll be read as two separate beats

so its uh-pre-she-ay-shun

theres a reason we make jokes about english beating up other languages in alleyways to rifle through their pockets for spare vocabulary

every day i grow more amazed and horrified at the english language sdkjnfsd

the "i and a next to each other almost always will be read as separate" is giving me so much psychic damage hahah. It's been a while since I was taught about hiatuses and dipthongs so i dont remember all the rules, but I remember i loved learning about it in school. Same as learning the rules of whether you write the accent in a word or dont, depending on the letter that the word ends in. There's just something really satisfying about having specific language rules that immediately tell you how a word works!

Though i guess y'all also have them, they just depend on the root language instead of having it be a standardized one!