• MudMan
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    87 months ago

    I don’t even know what “spelled phonetically” is supposed to mean in English. As far as I’m concerned that language is just a jumble of vowels that all sound the same but generate long arguments about how to pronounce things “correctly”.

      • teft
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        67 months ago

        Kind of. The IPA doesn’t show weak forms so non-native speakers can be confused by them if they only ever learned the dictionary way of pronouncing a word.

        • livus
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          57 months ago

          Ah that’s interesting, I didn’t know that.

          Still, the IPA is really helpful when trying to discuss pronunciation with someone who has a very different accent to ourselves.

          As a New Zealander I find some US phonetic spellings baffling.

    • ZerlynaOP
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      7 months ago

      Phonetically means the way it sounds which would be “fonetik”

      • @[email protected]
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        27 months ago

        This is not correct. English is simply not phonetic and therefore it’s impossible to spell any English word phonetically.

        • livus
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          7 months ago

          That’s transposing it how we sound to them, though!

          If the above were pronounced in a baseline kiwi accent the U would just get deeper. The vowel shift goes the other way if I’m to recreate their pronunciation using my own accent:

          Fehr ned ik (US)

          Foe net eck (UK)