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coughToulouse_Iron wrote: ↑Thu Oct 27, 2022 10:57 am ..................
You cannot know how to pronounce a word from how it is spelled, as words spelled the same can have different pronuncitions and words pronounced the same can have many different spellings.
Thanks for that TI, every day's a school dayToulouse_Iron wrote: ↑Thu Oct 27, 2022 10:57 am It is if you know the International Phonetic Alphabet and/or its variations...
Is that a bit like non-binary people dividing everyone up into binary and non-binary?
Take half a bottle of olive oil. Add some pan fried (in olive oil) birds eye chillies into the bottle, add 15g of dried chilli flakes....and top up with chilli oil from the cupboard.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/short ... e-petitionpablo jaye wrote: ↑Sun Oct 30, 2022 12:00 pm Helch? What’s that all about - seen this graffiti on motorway bridges but noticed a few around Waterloo station earlier.
There was a great piece of graffiti on the train bridge at Clapham North.Greatest Cockney Rip Off wrote: ↑Fri Nov 04, 2022 3:14 pm https://www.theguardian.com/world/short ... e-petition
and richie..? hope they're both ok.
Indeed.Hummer_I_mean_Hammer wrote: ↑Fri Nov 04, 2022 4:32 pm and richie..? hope they're both ok.
funny how you notice some posters no longer posting on here.
I tried learning korean once as I loved hangul (their alphabet) and the way their words were structured. Every character is a phonetic sound and they're structured into blocks - each block being a syllable. Seemed to make far more sense to me than our bastardised language. Sadly my linguistic skills leave a lot to be desired and I failed miserably with my attempts at learning the language. I did manage to get as far as reading and pronouncing written hangul. Didn't have a clue what any of it meant but I could say it!Toulouse_Iron wrote: ↑Thu Oct 27, 2022 10:57 am It is if you know the International Phonetic Alphabet and/or its variations. You should be able to pronounce just about any word in, for the sake of argument we'll call indo-european languages with some degree of accuracy. Opera singers use it widely to make sure they don't sing utter gibberish when the opera is in a language they don't actually know.
It is actually very useful, once you get the hang of it:
decipher
/dɪˈsʌɪfə/
From this, you know a (British) English speaker will accentuate the second syllable, that the first e is pronounced like the first e of everybody and that the last r is not pronounced.We also know that the i is pronounced like the y of why and not the i of pip. It could be pronounced dessiffer, if you have never heard it, as English is not a "phonetic" language:
You cannot know how to pronounce a word from how it is spelled, as words spelled the same can have different pronuncitions and words pronounced the same can have many different spellings.
Theoretically they could probably do it now with a synthetic hose type thing.ironilunga wrote: ↑Fri Nov 04, 2022 11:49 pm If all women woke up one morning anatomically able to urinate at a urinal do you think they would be happy to do so, standing like men do, next to each other?
Yes indeed, they would need to be telescopic though to fit in a handbag or such like and have a washable carry case for residual dripage.
