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Tanya vs. Tania
Akima:
--- Quote from: squawk on 10 May 2011, 07:23 ---people with accents that are not mine who are writing things that end with R is confusing all the hecks out of me
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In Australia, most people have what are known as "non-rhotic" accents (yes, my parents sent me to elocution lessons). The letter R at the end of words is usually silent, so centre = "senta", brighter = "bryta", and the words "panda" and "pander" have the same pronunciation. I would pronounce Tania as "Tan-ya" with "Tan" rhyming with fan, unless the person in question expressed another preference. Disclaimer: I am not a native English-speaker.
--- Quote from: SirJuggles on 10 May 2011, 16:28 ---Oh lord I think we need to agree on some form of phonetic alphabet up in here. People are trying to spell things how they sound and it is hurting my head :psyduck:
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There is the IPA but that would probably make our heads hurt worse.
Eris:
That is how I pronounce those words too, and I am a native english speaker. We also have broad vowel sounds and some softer consonants in our accents. Brighter would have almost a d sound rather than the harder t. Potato sounds more like Potaydoe. I guess I would pronounce Katie more like Kaydee, but wouldn't spell it that way.
Also, I love the IPA and want to use it all the time. I miss studying linguistics
Scandanavian War Machine:
i'd love to introduce myself to some of you in person and count how many times you say "what?" after i say my name
i always thought i spoke pretty well, but i think i've been getting lazy as i've gotten older, so whenever i tell someone my name is Danny they inevitably say "what?" at least once, usually a couple times
"danny" seems so easy to say too, i don't know what the deal is. i guess i'm just a fast-talking, backwoods mushmouth. :-D
bainidhe_dub:
--- Quote from: Scandanavian War Machine on 10 May 2011, 16:58 ---i'd love to introduce myself to some of you in person and count how many times you say "what?" after i say my name
i always thought i spoke pretty well, but i think i've been getting lazy as i've gotten older, so whenever i tell someone my name is Danny they inevitably say "what?" at least once, usually a couple times
"danny" seems so easy to say too, i don't know what the deal is. i guess i'm just a fast-talking, backwoods mushmouth. :-D
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My dad (who claims to have done some research into it, while trying to prove that it's not his ears that are the problem, it's everyone else's poor enunciation) that names are the least understandable part of a person's greeting, because they are so familiar to us. So if you say, "Hi, I'm Danny," it might very well seem clear to you, since you know what you're saying, but it comes out to everyone else as "Hiyumdanee".
calenlass:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 10 May 2011, 11:39 ---My daughter Catherine uses Kit for short.
And I don't pronounce Titania the same as you either, nor the same as Tania.
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Kit is perfectly acceptable, and also cute! How else does one pronounce Titania? tie-TANE-ee-uh? tih-tuh-NY-uh? I once knew a Tania, a Tiana, and a Tatiana and all those A sounds were approximately the same, and I have only ever heard anyone pronounce Titania similarly.
--- Quote from: tuathal on 10 May 2011, 12:21 ---Titania is either a name for a very fat/tall/large bosomed girl or multiple pieces of titanium.
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Um?
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