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Corrigez mes fautes, s'il-vous-plaît. Please correct my mistakes. Alegre si puedo ayudarte. Tu francés es muy bueno, aparte de dos errores, y una pequeña argucia. Happy to oblige. Your French is actually very good, apart from two little mistakes and a minor quibble. J'écrirai en français de plus en...

Well, as we've discussed here , many British singers use an American or half-American accent - e.g. American vowels combined with non-rhoticity, which is similar to what you describe. Some research shows that this process isn't entirely conscious: http://aut.researchgateway.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10...

Another idea if adjectives usually come before nouns: have general synalepha, deleting the final vowel when the noun begins with a vowel. Then, by analogy, the adjective form without a final vowel becomes the default one.

Of course, general synalepha will have other unintended consequences.

On a lighter note: I used to have a CD player with a very useful function, "stop at the end of the current track". And I've never found another one with this function ever since. Why??

(And yes, I know the answer is "who the hell still listens to CDs anyway")

So everyone tells Ophelia that Hamlet's in love with her, even though we haven't heard any word from him that would imply so. And now, we finally see them together... and he basically implies that she's a slut, and tells her to get to a nunnery (which, as I understand, is Elizabethan English for "fu...

[mwæ̃ ˈd̪i d̪ø ˌɢʁe]

What?

Hmm, are we using "offglide" in the same way? Apparently not. I may have used the wrong word here. I was thinking about what finlay said about Japanese. I had heard that Southern French could have, in place of nasal vowel phonemes, sequences of a vowel + a nasal stop like [ŋ]; it makes sense that s...

Sumelic wrote:French «in un an on» aren't pronounced with nasal offglides, if I remember correctly: they're nasalized monophthongs.

True in Standard French. Not true in Southern French, which does have nasal offglides which assimilate in POA with the following consonant.

Renaud - Renaud cante el'Nord

An album in Picard (though the singer is actually Parisian and doing covers).

A sample:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzZ2jSPnbZ8

Pole, the wrote: On the other hand, I learned „pedał” is a bad word after I used it in its non-slur meaning (“pedal”) and then was accused by an adult of using it unknowingly as a slur (approximately, “faggot”).

Funny, in French pédale has the same dual meaning.

Sorry, just sloppy phrasing on my part. He was clearly talking about a particular subset of indie rock. He was saying that Arty White Bands tend to sing in their own local accent, then added as an afterthought that most people would call them "indie rock bands" instead. (By the way, I find the expre...

That's not actually what I said. I said certain genres are associated with particular singing accents, at least at outset. A Canadian singing Country music singer may not be mimicking any particular American Country singer when they add a "country" inflexion to their lyrics. That's just the accent ...

A few days ago, I ordered a CD on Amazon, and I was told that it would be delivered through ColisPrivé. I was miffed, because ColisPrivé is probably the most incompetent delivery company in France (though the competition is fierce).

To my surprise, the CD was delivered on time and without a hitch.

Rhetorical question: Why do people (usually cis straight males) have to make victims of others in order to qualify things as bad (like calling things they don't like or things of bad quality "gay" or "lame") I'm not the kind of person who refuses to reply to rhetorical questions. As a non-native sp...

My favorite part is the overlong "introduction" that casually spoils all the plot twists, and is basically incomprehensible if you haven't already read and studied the play.

We call this "mid-atlantic" As opposed to this Mid-Atlantic accent , or that one ? Honestly I think this is more of a side-effect of most songs being written in standard English anyway, and many of these don't work if you try to sing them with regionalisms That may be part of it, yes. But rock lyri...

I have made some investigation on this subject myself. Heck, I've made a standardized version of this semi-American accent, which I use for singing. As linguoboy said, it has to do with the fact that singers tend to mimic the singers they like, including their accent. Rock music originated in the US...

I definitely find the shock images on Google unnerving, and watching them for too long gives me the creeps. I think most people would agree that they are legitimately creepy. Evolution trained us to be repulsed by disease, and holes on a human hand look like a horrific disease from the very depth of...

Also, do people having intrusive r add it after reduced form of to and contraction such as gonna or wanna ? I wouldn't say that it never happens, but as far as I know, it's uncommon in England. English people tend to keep semi-reduced /u/ (the elusive "schwoo") before a vowel, and only use a schwa ...

Currently trudging through Hamlet, which I had never read or seen before. Reading Elizabethan English is hard.

Now I understand the old joke that this play is "just one famous saying after another".

@ˈd̪ʲɛ.gɔ kɾuˑl̪ Sorry, I misread your question. I'm not sure how people from Northern England (or Ireland) pronounce these words. As Sumelic said, some speakers use a vowel similar to schwa in those words. Actually, some "educated" speakers in Northern England inconsistently use a schwa in native S...

My nickname means "dragon soldier" in Japanese (actually 竜戦士, ryū senshi). I've been using it since the early Noughties, at a time when I was way too much into JRPGs.

Just bought a new stereo. Now I won't have to open and close the lid three times to get my CDs to play properly.

I've recently learned the word amity. The meaning was fairly obvious.

Also, what do people without FOOT-STRUT distinction have in such borrowed words as curry ? Do they just not talk about these things? Non-native speaker here, but pretty sure it's STRUT . Actually, the word comes from the Tamil word kari . Several loanwords from India originally had an [a] sound, an...