The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
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I pronounce them [hɚɹi] and [fɚɹi] respectively.
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How do you say venae cavae?
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[ˈveɪnə ˈkævəz]Ean wrote:How do you say venae cavae?
i'm not a doctor but i've watched many on TV
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That's the first time I've seen -ae as a schwa and spontaneous ghost -s's.
Aw, I thought it would be [vi:ni: kheI.vi:] or something.
Aw, I thought it would be [vi:ni: kheI.vi:] or something.
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strange things happen when rough phonetic borrowings from dead languages that aren't ever used in common speech are involvedEan wrote:That's the first time I've seen -ae as a schwa and spontaneous ghost -s's.
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I have the hurry-furry merger; [hɹ̩i] - [fɹ̩i]
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['we.naɪ 'ka.waɪ]Ean wrote:How do you say venae cavae?
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You can't hide your English accent - [aI] for [aj] and also [e:].
['be.nas 'ka.Bas] in my dialect
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['be.nas 'ka.Bas] in my dialect
kawaiiii desuuuu
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Dialect? This is Latin, isn't it? Are you a native speaker of Latin?Ean wrote:You can't hide your English accent - [aI] for [aj] and also [e:].
['be.nas 'ka.Bas] in my dialect
kawaiiii desuuuu
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How do you guys say 'squish'?
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/sːkwɪʃː/meltman wrote:How do you guys say 'squish'?
Hey there.
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/vɛ'nɛː kæv'ɛː/Ean wrote:How do you say venae cavae?
Hey there.
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Yay, someone else who rounds the NURSE vowel.ol bofosh wrote:['hɐ.ɹʷɪi] ˈ['fœː.ɹʷɪi]
They're roughly [ˈhɞɹɪ] and [ˈfœːɹɪ] for me, though the end vowel varies a lot.
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wow, you can hear a difference?!?!?!~~Ean wrote:[aI] for [aj]
this is like that guy who complained about the inaudible difference between [kʷ] and [kw]
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['vɛ.nɛ 'ka.vɛ]* and [skwɪʃ] or [skʷɪʃ]
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*I have reasons to stand by my choice...
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Yes, [ˈviːni ˈkʰeɪvi]. (Word final unstressed [i] is pronounced short, even in SSBE, which is why there's even a separate set for it, the HAPPY set.)Ean wrote:That's the first time I've seen -ae as a schwa and spontaneous ghost -s's.
Aw, I thought it would be [vi:ni: kheI.vi:] or something.
Well, yeah, kinda. In the same way you're a native speaker of PIE (but 21st century PIE). In the dialect of Paris it'd be [venekaˈve] too.Hubris Incalculable wrote:Dialect? This is Latin, isn't it? Are you a native speaker of Latin?Ean wrote:You can't hide your English accent - [aI] for [aj] and also [e:].
['be.nas 'ka.Bas] in my dialect
kawaiiii desuuuu
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venae cavae
At a guess, [ˈvɪ.nɛi ˈkɐː.vɛi]
squish [skwɪʃ]
At a guess, [ˈvɪ.nɛi ˈkɐː.vɛi]
squish [skwɪʃ]
Yay, someone else who rounds the NURSE vowel.
It was about time I changed this.
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Serafín wrote:Yes, [ˈviːni ˈkʰeɪvi]. (Word final unstressed is pronounced short, even in SSBE, which is why there's even a separate set for it, the HAPPY set.)
Interesting - same for algae then I guess? What is SSBE (I guess it's not SSBE :: Swiss Society for Biomedical Engineering, or is it?).
Hubris Incalculable wrote:Ean wrote:You can't hide your English accent - [aI] for [aj] and also [e:].
['be.nas 'ka.Bas] in my dialect
kawaiiii desuuuu
Dialect? This is Latin, isn't it? Are you a native speaker of Latin?
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Whenever I read descriptions of English phonology NURSE is always described as basically [ɵ] or [ɵ˞] (a rounded vowel higher than the schwa), where "ɜ/ɜ˞" is basically legacy code in English phonetics from early 20th century linguistics (Ladefoged and Maddieson even have no problem drawing a diagram with <ɜ> higher than <ə>, admitting convention often goes over whatever the IPAssociation would like)ol bofosh wrote:Yay, someone else who rounds the NURSE vowel.
[æɫdʒi].Ean wrote:Interesting - same for algae then I guess? What is SSBE (I guess it's not SSBE :: Swiss Society for Biomedical Engineering, or is it?).
SSBE stands for "Standard Southern British English", basically today's growing standard pronunciation in England in comparison to the RP that Jones described in the early 20th century. RP /ʊə/ is now merged with /ɔː/ (<poor> [pʰɔː]), RP /æ/ [æ] is lowered to a mostly-front [a], RP /ʌ/ [ʌ] is centralized to [ɐ], and other things.
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yes, I can hear a difference between a Spanish person saying "like" properly and one saying laic.finlay wrote:wow, you can hear a difference?!?!?!~~Ean wrote:[aI] for [aj]
Nevertheless, no, that's not what I was saying, it's the way he transcribed it what made it obvious it was not a Latin/romance/non-English native!
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We're talking about a language when it was spoken about 2050 years ago. How do you know they pronounced it [ai] and not [aɪ]? In fact there are some who prefer [aɛ̯].
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yes, I can hear a difference between a Spanish person saying "like" properly and one saying laic.
Nevertheless, no, that's not what I was saying, it's the way he transcribed it what made it obvious it was not a Latin/romance/non-English native!
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But if I'm wrong, how does the following exchange make sense?
Hubris Incalculable wrote:['we.naɪ 'ka.waɪ]Ean wrote:How do you say venae cavae?
The correction of [e] > [e:] makes sense only if we're talking about imitating 1st century BC Latin, but then [aI] > [aj] can hardly be argued for...Ean wrote:You can't hide your English accent - [aI] for [aj] and also [e:].
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Kawaiiiiii. <3Hubris Incalculable wrote:['we.naɪ 'ka.waɪ]Ean wrote:How do you say venae cavae?
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