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WCDT Strips 3221 to 3225 (16 - 20 May 2016)
Perfectly Reasonable:
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--- Quote from: Lubricus on 19 May 2016, 22:39 ---
--- Quote from: Perfectly Reasonable on 19 May 2016, 18:18 ---Jeph may spell it 'Brun', but what Brünnhilde is saying is 'Brün'. Clinton would have no trouble with 'Brun'.
Instead he tries to make it 'Broon'.
My headcanøn anyway.
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Maybe, but Brün and Broon are pretty distant sounds. Wouldn't Clinton have pronounced it "Brin"or something in that case?
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I think Perfectly Reasonable is assuming that "Brun" = "u as in cut" and "Brün" = "u as in flute", rather than referring to the proper German ü sound.
(Wouldn't it be so much easier if we all used IPA? /ʌ/, /u:/, and /y:/ respectively. Probably the "Broon" was intended to mean he pronounced /u:/, but the proper German vowel was /ʊ/... or, since the symbols only have so much precision, an English /u:/ isn't precisely the same as a German /u:/, it could have been a hair too long or with a close glide at the end [sometimes written /ʊw/] or something)
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Very interesting. But...
Let me put it another way. I'm annoyed that Jeph seems to be dumbing down his comic so that Americans don't have to deal with umlauts.
That's my heäd cånön and I'm sticking to it.
Eastrim:
--- Quote from: Perfectly Reasonable on 20 May 2016, 10:27 ---Let me put it another way. I'm annoyed that Jeph seems to be dumbing down his comic so that Americans don't have to deal with umlauts.
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Keep in mind that he has a band named Deathmøle.
chaospersonified:
Perfectly Reasonable, your recent use of unneccessary accent marks is perfectly unreasonable.
Nepiophage:
--- Quote from: zmeiat_joro on 20 May 2016, 06:22 ---Speaking of the numbers of vowels in languages: Ubykh has two vowels, and so does Mandarin in some analyses of its phonology. But I really don't want to get deep into this, unless someone wants me to go into phonological analysis and diachronical reconstruction. IIRC Swedish has the most among European languages.
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Afrikaaner English has one: i. Go to SA and an Afrikaaner may well say "wilcime ti Sith Ifriki!
chaospersonified:
Ugh, this thread, for days, has made me wish I had taken German. I feel I have a better grasp of the umlaut, but I feel that way having only heard it a handul of times, none of which I remember clearly. I can count to three, I can talk shit in the most literal sense, and that is it.
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