Dear YouTube: con-chair-toe, not con-sert-o

[carlsson]

Well, it is tritono in Italian. Tri obviously stems for three which is the distance in whole tones between two tones, like C - F#.

[+CyranoJ]

JAG-U-ARE.

 

And now the fight has truly started, I'll go stand in the corner and film it in portrait mode.....

[John Stamos Mullet]

On 5/26/2021 at 2:01 PM, zzip said:

One thing that annoys me about English--    if you are going to import a word from a foreign language-   either keep the spelling and pronounce it according to English rules or keep the pronunciation and spell it according to the way it should pronounced, but not both!   It creates too many exceptions to the rules of the language.

 

Yes, I've been publically embarassed pronouncing "hors-de-vours" the way it is spelt if you couldn't tell ?

That's the thing though - it's not imported into English. It is just an Italian word. It's not an English word. It is spelled and pronounced as originally intended, in Italian.

 

English speakers need to move out of their comfort zone and simply learn to pronounce non-English words correctly.

 

It's not like phonetics rules apply 100% of the time to English anyway.

[John Stamos Mullet]

On 6/1/2021 at 7:56 AM, Jinks said:

Americans call roofs rufs. Can not pronounce the oo for the life of them. Then go on to say us Canucks talk funny.. ok Forrest. 

 

What's dat ahl aboot?

[Jinks]

2 hours ago, John Stamos Mullet said:

What's dat ahl aboot?

Life's like a box of chocolates. Nuff said.

 

[HammR25]

The thread topic reminds me of concertina wire

[Keatah]

Fuck it and the dictionary it's written in. I say it like I spell it and I spell it like I say it.

[SS]

14 hours ago, Keatah said:

Fuck it and the dictionary it's written in. I say it like I spell it and I spell it like I say it.

Honestly, if enough people say "con-sert-to" for long enough then that's actually how the word becomes to be said.  That's how language works and evolves. ??‍♂️

[Rhomaios]

4 hours ago, SS said:

Honestly, if enough people say "con-sert-to" for long enough then that's actually how the word becomes to be said.  That's how language works and evolves. ??‍♂️

Or devolves.

 

But yes, we don't all speak Proto-Indo-European (or its ancestors) for a reason.