sciing
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Post by sciing on Jan 28, 2017 16:41:38 GMT 1
Quite strange, at least english is clearly the last language for it. There is no other language where the written and spelled one are so different. I am able to read russian kirilics and it is easy to transcript to german, but reading an english transcription I have problems what it should mean. I hate to write my name with oe instead clear ö.
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Post by philidor on Jan 29, 2017 20:34:37 GMT 1
I must strongly disagree....If you read the text without those marks and the letter is different you still undestand it nicely and I am 10000000% sure same is valid for franch, german and spanisch etc. As regards French, you are 10000000% wrong. |
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Post by mjoelnir on Jan 29, 2017 22:18:57 GMT 1
We have in Icelandic letters that do not exist in English. We have marks above vowels that change it into a different vowel. If you know how each resulting letter is pronounced you can pronounce any word. In English the written word does often not indicate how it is pronounced, very ineffective, the English language should adopt "marks" to make pronunciation not a guessing game.
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Post by stealthmanbob on Jan 29, 2017 22:48:43 GMT 1
We have in Icelandic letters that do not exist in English. We have marks above vowels that change it into a different vowel. If you know how each resulting letter is pronounced you can pronounce any word. In English the written word does often not indicate how it is pronounced, very ineffective, the English language should adopt "marks" to make pronunciation not a guessing game. Being English myself I can pronounce all words ! I just can't spill thum al  PS - would it be possible to move all these posts to the "Languages & Accents" thread in "Out of Topic" ? |
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Post by stealthmanbob on Jan 29, 2017 23:34:19 GMT 1
When I was a young child and struggling with spelling, being good at maths but cr*p at spelling, my English teacher said just follow the rules it's logical ! "I before E except if it's after a C" - Great I thought until I was told there were exceptions e.g. "Their" (it works 95 % of the time though !) That's like 4+4 = 8, but not if it's Wednesday when it = 11  |
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Post by philidor on Jan 30, 2017 1:20:58 GMT 1
PS - would it be possible to move all these posts to the "Languages & Accents" thread in "Out of Topic" ? I second that proposal ! |
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Post by FabienA380 on Jan 31, 2017 9:01:54 GMT 1
I haven't followed that conversation where it was originally, which thread was that conversation in?..
Also, why now two Languages and Accents' threads?.....
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Post by philidor on Jan 31, 2017 10:25:55 GMT 1
I haven't followed that conversation where it was originally, which thread was that conversation in?.. Also, why now two Languages and Accents' threads?..... The above discussion started in the "Air Caraïbes A350s" thread when petera380 noticed the 'ï' ... Either Addasih or XWB must have moved it here. That's fine, the thread is OK. |
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Post by stealthmanbob on Jan 31, 2017 11:24:38 GMT 1
I haven't followed that conversation where it was originally, which thread was that conversation in?.. Also, why now two Languages and Accents' threads?..... I suggested moving the post to "languages and accents" thread, I guess whoever moved them created a new thread ? i guess they should be merged ? |
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Post by HL7615 on Jan 2, 2018 4:52:07 GMT 1
Coming back to this almost a year later, and people claim that those living in the Midwestern US have an accent. Sure I grew up in Michigan, but our accent (if I can even call it that) is probably the most neutral of them all. However... we call it pop, not soda (read: coca cola) We add an s to the end of many store brands (mostly local grocery stores) We hardly pronounce the letter T in some words. We call up north a vacation spot and not necessarily a geographic direction. It's mostly where yours truly goes fishing and water skiing in the summer. We call liquor store party stores (since you know your New Year's Eve party is not complete without some jager!) This somewhat goes into detail about it. owlcation.com/humanities/Michigan-Accent |
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