InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year agoWhat is a word you realized you were pronouncing wrong until you heard someone else say it?hexbear.netimagemessage-square100fedilinkarrow-up154arrow-down11
arrow-up153arrow-down1imageWhat is a word you realized you were pronouncing wrong until you heard someone else say it?hexbear.netInevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square100fedilink
minus-square2Password2Remember [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-21 year agodon’t have a good answer to OP’s question but i just want to give a shoutout to my fellow IPA literate sickos in this thread fighting the good fight Death to America
minus-squarealexandra_kollontai [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year agoHexbear won’t understand this coded message: /'dəþ 'tu 'ði æm'εrɪkən 'længwədʒ/
minus-square2Password2Remember [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year ago stress markers on one-syllable words Death to America
minus-squarealexandra_kollontai [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoIt means you say them louder
minus-square🏳️⚧️ 新星 [she/they]@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year ago æ I have to remind myself not to pronounce /æ/ like Latin “ae”. Laughing at IPA /æ/ in “American” though, would be hilarious to make this the actual pronunciation
minus-squareInevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year ago IPA My brain interprets that as a horrible foreign language so if I want to share a pronunciation for simplicity’s sake I use dictionary.com. An example… Segue Definition & Meaning SEG-wey It’s not perfect but it’s the best site I know.
minus-squareHumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoif it’s not on my computer keyboard it’s a made up sound!
don’t have a good answer to OP’s question but i just want to give a shoutout to my fellow IPA literate sickos in this thread fighting the good fight
Death to America
Hexbear won’t understand this coded message:
/'dəþ 'tu 'ði æm'εrɪkən 'længwədʒ/ə7
Death to America
It means you say them louder
I have to remind myself not to pronounce /æ/ like Latin “ae”.
Laughing at IPA /æ/ in “American” though, would be hilarious to make this the actual pronunciation
My brain interprets that as a horrible foreign language so if I want to share a pronunciation for simplicity’s sake I use dictionary.com. An example…
It’s not perfect but it’s the best site I know.
if it’s not on my computer keyboard it’s a made up sound!