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WCDT: 2455-2459 (27-31 May, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
ankhtahr:
Ah, you're Danish! Cool!
I frikkin' love Denmark. Been to København a few times, and we're regularly spending our vacations on Rømø.
Well, there is definitely a difference between ship and sheep, at least in Received Pronunciation. The i in ship is more like a short version of "eh", while the ee in "sheep", well it would translate to "ieh" in German.
Carl-E:
"pronounce" and "pronoun" are twin sins of different mothers - they happen to look the same, but have different etymologies. As for pronunciation... yeah, I got nothin', except to remind you that of all languages, English is easily the most irregular, having developed in a forge of conquest and defeat over millennia with no standards of spelling until quite recently, and a grossly undereducated majority of speakers.
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muon:
--- Quote from: KOK on 30 May 2013, 13:05 ---The name of the letter E is a sound I don't know if exist in English. It is the sound of German e in e.g. Nebel, or French é in e.g. été.
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There are 2 "e"s in Nebel, so I'm not sure if you mean the first or the second, but both sounds exist in English. The first like the "ei" in neighbor, while the second is more like the "u" in pull (which makes sense, weil in Althochdeutsch es Nebul buchstabiert war), although now I think that isn't a perfect match. Of course, we could solve all of these problems if we used the IPA.
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Nah, I prefer to live dangerously.
bhtooefr:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 30 May 2013, 14:29 ---As for pronunciation... yeah, I got nothin', except to remind you that of all languages, English is easily the most irregular, having developed in a forge of conquest and defeat over millennia with no standards of spelling until quite recently, and a grossly undereducated majority of speakers.
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--- Quote from: James Nicoll --- The problem with defending the purity of the English language
is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't
just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages
down alleyways to beat them unconscious and riffle their pockets for
new vocabulary.
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Kugai:
I'll stick to Ginger Beer.
Careful Pintsize, Claire might wind up paddling you.
Then again, he might just enjoy that.
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