I'd ring that
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I just wouldn't think to look up a word I assumed I was pronouncing correctly. I'm pretty good at this reading thing, and so I apply the standards, but words like epitome and ethereal are just here to fuck with us.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Tbf a call line wouldn't help you in that case either, which is the premise of this. You wouldn't call about words you assume you know
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I've looked it up a bunch of times and I still don't know if potable is "POTE-ah-bull" or "POT-ah-bull"
it's /ˈpoːdəbl/ in American English anyway.
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Calliope
Hegemony
Vitiligo
These are a few of my recent ones.
/ˌkʌːlˈaɪɔpi/
/hɛdʒˈɛːmʌni/
/vɪtɪlˈaɪɡoʊ/? I think?
I kinda suck at IPA.
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PTSD flashback to my ESL little self always mispronouncing choir after they told me to join to practice my English.
Another funny story! An ex of mine was an exchange student in Germany (from Canada) when she was a high schooler, and she attended a children's choir concert where they sang "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off", and in the line "you say tomato, I say tomato", they pronounced "tomato" the same way each time.
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Does he say "chaos" with a soft "ch" as well?
He also pronounces “tome” like “tomb”
My roommate in college did that. Drove me nuts, but the worst was that he rhymed "epitome" with "tome."
No, his chaos is thankfully chaos. It would be kind of fitting if it weren't, though.
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Oh god yes the jimbles on Mays, I had forgotten about that, every time he would say that my brain would go "the what?" It would suck me right out of immersion every damn time.
Having not read this (yet! It's planned) what is the word and how is supposed to be pronounced?
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I speak spanish and one of the first cultural shocks I had was when I as a kid saw an episode of some sitcom (can't remember) and there where talks of a "spelling bee" a contest to see who could spell correctly, that was so alien to at the time because in spanish there are just a few words that are tricky, because they have some silent H or a P at the beginning but then I started to learn english and it all made sense.
"English: if you can spell our words we'll literally give you a fucking trophy and a scholarship"
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Having not read this (yet! It's planned) what is the word and how is supposed to be pronounced?
Hard-g; "gimbals" see "gimbal lock"
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Does that mean the game on PS4 is Bloodbin in Australia?
No because that would be logically consistent
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No I will pronounce Latin with guterization so bad it'd make a Catholic priest have an aneurysm. Worst part is it actually sounds close to classical Latin or so I've been told.
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Having not read this (yet! It's planned) what is the word and how is supposed to be pronounced?
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/gimbal
There's audio for us and UK here.
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But isn't the whole point of that to avoid the "oh sweetie..."?
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Depends on if you had a Greek class with Persephone explained also
It's not pursey phone?
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Can't you just type a word into merriam webster and get an audio pronouciation?
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Hard-g; "gimbals" see "gimbal lock"
Is this one of those gif - jiff type situations?
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Is this one of those gif - jiff type situations?
I don't know what the etymology of "gimbal" is...
Looks like the precursor words all use soft-g, and wiktionary even says soft-g is an allowed pronunciation.
So, yes, I think.
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Candell-abra is how I was pronouncing it. Yes, I know it's the wrong way
It's pretty close, sounds like you're just pausing at the wrong spot.
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I'm old and I HATE dealing with things on a phone call.
Old is a relative term, and Lemmy is an echo chamber of tech-literate people.
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Can't you just type a word into merriam webster and get an audio pronouciation?
Typing requires thumbs; something only primates have.
...another thing that (some) primates have is an island where rich people go to molest children.
Some of these primates are greedy and/or terrible primates, and they don't want you to look up any connection between a primate named Trump and a primate named Epstein (spoiler alert, those primates rape underaged primates and brag about it to each other).
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Someone didn't watch The Expanse.
I read it though
