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Speaking of Spanish accents, I find a similar pattern to what Travis has identified: I have no trouble with lack of distinción or yeísmo , both of which involve the merger of segments. But aspiration of /s/ presents more of a challenge and the hardest dialects of all are Caribbean dialects with wide...

Last night, a friend repeatedly pronounced Thames [θeɪ̭mz] until another friend couldn't take it any more and corrected him. Even after that, he changed to [tʰæmz], presumably under the influence of the spelling. (Before anyone asks: He's from Indiana, not the Northeast, so he probably isn't being i...

jmcd wrote:Can this En Marche government get any worse?

I would think even a cursory glance at 20th-century French politics would yield the answer, "Yes. By quite a lot."

zompist wrote:What did you put on on Saturday?

there may be a tiny pause after the first "on", which isn't needed for

What did you put on last Saturday?

I'm actually more likely to add a pause to:

What did you put on Saturday?

to make it clear on belongs to the phrasal verb and not the prepositional phrase.

Ein Freund von mir hat grade Rocher-Eis entdeckt. Er würde die Herausforderung gerne annehmen.
A friend of mine just discovered Rocher ice cream. He'd gladly accept your challenge.

Porn star's attorney alleging Trump affair to offer reward (WaPo)

First three times reading this, it was just word salad.

yangfiretiger121 wrote:According to some linguists, such as /kˡ/, are no different than clusters, such as /kl/. By this logic, would /nʲ/ be the same as /ɲ/?

Who is /kˡ/ and where can I read their articles? They sound rad.

My husband was an avid art collector. A few years before he died, he talked to someone from a local art museum about selling or donating some of his collection. She was very interested in his Japanese graphic art, but for some reason the museum didn't approve the acquisition. I've been struggling wi...

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linguoboy wrote:I swear, every day this week has felt like it should have been Friday but wasn't.

Good news: Today really is Friday.

I remain to be convinced.

I swear, every day this week has felt like it should have been Friday but wasn't.

Das Firma hat sich geirrt, indem ich bin nach Feedback über seinen "Support" gefragt worden. The company made the mistake of asking for my feedback on their "support". Der Tenor meiner Antwort was "Was meinen Sie 'Support'?" Vertrösten ist kein "Support"! The thrust of my reply was, "What support?"...

Sinclair Broadcasting under fire for fake news script (Salon)

Ich wurde gezwungen, mein Hochdeutsch des 19. Jahrhunderts zu üben, da Amazon.de beim Liefern ein von mir bestelltes Buch versagt hat. I had to give my 19th-century High German a workout because Amazon.de failed to deliver a book I ordered. Es ist pervers befriedigend, wenn man ein Wort wie "Untäti...

Wait, you mean there are people who actually call it parme[d͡ʒ]an? I've never heard that pronunciation. As Soap says, the most common alternative is with [z]. (Apparently this is the usual pronunciation in the UK.) I don't think it constitutes a "spelling pronunciation" unless it can be shown that ...

jal wrote:Samstag fahre ich ab nach Saarbrücken, wie jedes Jahr während Oster. Dort gibt es die Revision demo party.

Was zum Teufel ist eine "Revision demo" und wieso hat das eine Party?
What the hell is a "Revision demo" and why does it get to have a party?

It was really shocking from a British perspective, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't deliberate hatefulness, merely a failure to grasp the full sectarian significance of the suggestion. I'm not so sure. Anti-Catholicism in the USA used to be vicious and it's not dead yet. My last year of Catholic grade...

And even though I do not actually recall hearing or saying Elijah , for some reason the default pronunciation that comes to mind is the hyperforeign one. I wonder if it has something to do with position. I've having a harder time coming up with examples of deaffrication in postconsonantal or initia...

Aber doch am Fin de Siècle!
But at the fin de siècle!

Do you mean it rhymes with delicious for you? That's exactly what I'm saying. So perhaps this represents another source of analogy (since salacious is not a word I use often--and I've even caught myself saying that with tonic /ɪ/ before). A lot of people have /ʒ/ for <j> in 'Beijing' and 'Azerbaija...

I don't know whether I say fallacious with stressed /ɪ/ by simple analogy with the noun or out of a historical desire to avoid homophony with fellatio.

Is that place even open on Mondays? EDIT: Can you just get something that doesn't have fish in it? I'm not sure how much they offer which doesn't feature fish, but I plan to favour the cooked dishes. I told my friend that next year he needs to get the drop on everyone and choose his restaurant well...

Two of my friends share a birthday today and one was complaining to me about the other's choice of restaurant. When we heard he wanted rotary sushi, I was like, It won't be good but I'll humour him. Then I realised it's Monday which--unless things have changed--is traditionally the day fresh fish ma...

You confused me there - note that the "original" decipherment you're talking about there is a different (and later?) one than the decipherment talked about at the beginning of this thread. I confused myself! I do remember being amused by two different decipherments hitting the news in quick success...

Interesting. I would say that Americans are significantly more likely to have familiarity with Spanish than French, actually--who doesn't know greetings/how to count to ten in Spanish? Spanish speakers so vastly outnumber French speakers in the US, too. Speakers don't even have to know that /ʃ/ for...

I only learned a while ago that "courier" doesn't rhyme with "warrior". And I thought "carapace" ended in /əs/--maybe I was comparing it to "populace--but it seems like the typical pronunciation is actually with /eɪs/. My family has always used /ə/ and Dad has a masters in animal science. (He wrote...