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Oh of course. Just less so than Spanish and French.
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Anyways,
I want to know who decided "gh" could make an "f" sound, as in cough or rough.
At least with "ph", the mouth shape for "f" is sorta halfway between both "p" and "h". With "gh", there is no similarity at all of "g" to "f".
Anyways,
I want to know who decided "gh" could make an "f" sound, as in cough or rough.
At least with "ph", the mouth shape for "f" is sorta halfway between both "p" and "h". With "gh", there is no similarity at all of "g" to "f".
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Phonemes can be represented by many different graphemes, and graphemes can be expressed with many different phonemes.CaptainPea wrote:Where Topics Come Back From The Dead Oh No
Anyways,
I want to know who decided "gh" could make an "f" sound, as in cough or rough.
At least with "ph", the mouth shape for "f" is sorta halfway between both "p" and "h". With "gh", there is no similarity at all of "g" to "f".
You are right that there is no similarity between a voiced velar stop and a voiceless labiodental fricative - I mean even if you have no idea what those words mean, at the very least you can see that every single part of it is different.
I can't tell you the reason why (but it's certainly not that someone 'decided' it), but I can tell you that the phonemes associated with the digraph 'gh' do not necessarily have any relationship to the phonemes of 'g' and 'h' separately, much like how 'ch' doesn't necessarily have any relation to 'c' and 'h', and it shouldn't be expected for a digraph to sound like either of its components when taken individually.
Mind you, 'gh' can also be used as a voiced velar stop in some contexts, and be completely silent in others: Compare your example 'cough' (/kôf/) with 'ghost' (/gōst/) or 'though' (/ðō/).
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That just reminded me of the scene in Hot Rod where the main character starts pronouncing 'w's very strangely. He is doing a stunt and the word to pull out of the stunt is whiskey, but instead he says wuhisky and completely floors himself. Needless to say that it was funnier than it sounds when I explain it.
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Well, the gh was probably originally a voiceless (maybe voiced) velar fricative (see hard German ch as example), but as English moved away from using that sound entirely, it migrated to places that sounded similar (cough: f is fricative so it has a similar feel), occurred in the same place (ghost: g is also velar), or was just dropped to make things easier (through).
Again, any real linguists may tear this theory into little shreds
Again, any real linguists may tear this theory into little shreds
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Spanish is my native language
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Heard 60% (Some people talk to fast)
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One of my offspring is my sidekick, but sometimes I have to flick her when she's acting bigoted. Learning new words is fun. I wish I were at the level of proficiency in Spanish to start learning neat new words, but I'm still learning the basic things.
...What's a really neat word you never hear, and what's it mean?
...What's a really neat word you never hear, and what's it mean?
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Mmmmm.....Sleet wrote:One of my offspring is my sidekick, but sometimes I have to flick her when she's acting bigoted. Learning new words is fun. I wish I were at the level of proficiency in Spanish to start learning neat new words, but I'm still learning the basic things.
...What's a really neat word you never hear, and what's it mean?
Relajacion
Relaxing
Well i try to keep my life the stress-less the more posible, maybe it's not a neat word, but i like it ^~^
And i have a little game for you and for all who want to learn Spanish, is called "Trabalenguas"
The rules are:
Say it as fast you can.
Do it three times.
And have fun
Erre con Erre Cigarro,
Erre con Erre Barril,
Rapido Corren los Carros,
Cargados de Azucar,
Del Ferrocarril.
Tres Tristes Tigres Tragaban Trigo en un Trigal,
En un Trigal Tragaban Trigo Tres Tristes Tigres.
Los trabalenguas se han hecho para destrabar la lengua,
sin trabas ni mengua alguna,
y si alguna mengua traba tu lengua,
con un trabalenguas podras destrabar tu lengua.
Have fun and tell me how you did
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That is one of the reasons why I'm still here. E|:DAlex M. wrote:Spanish is my native language
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That's not an obscure word! There's no fun in that!
Anyway, you had be beat at "erre." I still can't roll my R's. Then again, you probably have/had trouble pronouncing our H's.
Anyway, you had be beat at "erre." I still can't roll my R's. Then again, you probably have/had trouble pronouncing our H's.
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Try saying "otorrinolaringologia" as fast as you can. My mom made me do that when I was little...Alex M. wrote:Los trabalenguas se han hecho para destrabar la lengua,Sleet wrote:One of my offspring is my sidekick, but sometimes I have to flick her when she's acting bigoted. Learning new words is fun. I wish I were at the level of proficiency in Spanish to start learning neat new words, but I'm still learning the basic things.
...What's a really neat word you never hear, and what's it mean?
sin trabas ni mengua alguna,
y si alguna mengua traba tu lengua,
con un trabalenguas podras destrabar tu lengua.
Have fun and tell me how you did
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Thats easy.dalonewolf25 wrote:Try saying "otorrinolaringologia" as fast as you can. My mom made me do that when I was little...Alex M. wrote:Los trabalenguas se han hecho para destrabar la lengua,Sleet wrote:One of my offspring is my sidekick, but sometimes I have to flick her when she's acting bigoted. Learning new words is fun. I wish I were at the level of proficiency in Spanish to start learning neat new words, but I'm still learning the basic things.
...What's a really neat word you never hear, and what's it mean?
sin trabas ni mengua alguna,
y si alguna mengua traba tu lengua,
con un trabalenguas podras destrabar tu lengua.
Have fun and tell me how you did
Now try to say this one:
PENTAQUISMIRIOEXAQUISQUILIOTETRACOSIOEXAPENTAGONAL
It's a polygon of 84 sides
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Actually it's a verb meaning being shaped like a polygon with 84 sides. The shape itself would just be a pentaquismirioexaquisquilotetracosioexapentagon.
Actually, the real word is octacontakaitetragon. The more you know. :3
The longest English word I can pull out of my mind is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
Actually, the real word is octacontakaitetragon. The more you know. :3
The longest English word I can pull out of my mind is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
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Just googled and found this:Sleet wrote:Actually it's a verb meaning being shaped like a polygon with 84 sides. The shape itself would just be a pentaquismirioexaquisquilotetracosioexapentagon.
Actually, the real word is octacontakaitetragon. The more you know. :3
The longest English word I can pull out of my mind is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
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I was going to say the IUPAC name for the muscle protein "titin," but due to the character limit it'd take four posts.
So instead I leave you with this.
And no, it is not a coincidence it sounds like "titan." All proteins must end in "-in," and biologists have senses of humor sometimes.
EDIT: Wait, there are still two more hours of the name that YouTube had to cut out. It's a big word. :3
So instead I leave you with this.
And no, it is not a coincidence it sounds like "titan." All proteins must end in "-in," and biologists have senses of humor sometimes.
EDIT: Wait, there are still two more hours of the name that YouTube had to cut out. It's a big word. :3
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That will be my new password for all.Sleet wrote:I was going to say the IUPAC name for the muscle protein "titin," but due to the character limit it'd take four posts.
So instead I leave you with this.
And no, it is not a coincidence it sounds like "titan." All proteins must end in "-in," and biologists have senses of humor sometimes.
EDIT: Wait, there are still two more hours of the name that YouTube had to cut out. It's a big word. :3
Noooo!
I have a feling that in the future i will need to write the full word on the white board of my classroom
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It would take one of the fastest speakers in the world at least two hours to say it. Imagine how long it would take to write. Plus it wouldn't fit unless you can write obscenely small.
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Imagine saying the full word with some techno beats, that will be awesome for a rave!Sleet wrote:It would take one of the fastest speakers in the world at least two hours to say it. Imagine how long it would take to write. Plus it wouldn't fit unless you can write obscenely small.
Woops! Techno typo
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Sadly, the longest word in the English dictionary is antidisestablishmentarianism. Scientific words with long prefixes and suffixes are usually not placed in the dictionary...
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Titin isn't prefixes and suffixes, since there is no root word. It's a bunch of chemical groups strung together like any chemical would be.
Anyway, the dictionary we had at middle school had pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis in it. There is no "the English dictionary." Different dictionaries will include different words.
You mean "establish?"dalonewolf25 wrote:...antidisestablishmentarianism.... prefixes and suffixes...
Anyway, the dictionary we had at middle school had pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis in it. There is no "the English dictionary." Different dictionaries will include different words.
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Well to be fair the voiced velar fricative was used in OE, as well as the voiceless velar fricative which is far more common today (but, like your German example, it's more often represented by 'ch', not 'gh').Obbl wrote:Well, the gh was probably originally a voiceless (maybe voiced) velar fricative (see hard German ch as example), but as English moved away from using that sound entirely, it migrated to places that sounded similar (cough: f is fricative so it has a similar feel), occurred in the same place (ghost: g is also velar), or was just dropped to make things easier (through).
Again, any real linguists may tear this theory into little shreds
I did some very very light searching and couldn't find any actual examples of the archaic use of the voiced velar fricative, so I can't really comment otherwise.
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Today I suddenly realized that the way that everyone I know (myself included) pronounces comfortable does not line up with the actual spelling; in fact I don't think I have ever heard anyone pronounce it the way it is spelled.
I've always heard it pronounced as though spelled "comfterble"*, while it is clearly spelled with the r between the f and t. I guess this is pretty common considering its how I've always heard it, but I think the spelling should change, because the current spelling makes me uncomfterble.
*/kʌmftə[r]bəl/, as opposed to /kʌmfərtəbəl/ yay the internet has dictionaries on it
I've always heard it pronounced as though spelled "comfterble"*, while it is clearly spelled with the r between the f and t. I guess this is pretty common considering its how I've always heard it, but I think the spelling should change, because the current spelling makes me uncomfterble.
*/kʌmftə[r]bəl/, as opposed to /kʌmfərtəbəl/ yay the internet has dictionaries on it
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I've never heard comfortable pronounced like that.
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I hear "comfterble" all the time.
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i hear both, and i say both
i guess it kind of depends on how articulate we feel like being
i guess it kind of depends on how articulate we feel like being
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Oh and probably goes all over the place
/prali/ /prabli/ /prabəbli/
/prali/ /prabli/ /prabəbli/
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But then, isn't that basically how language changes in the first place?
Few centuries time, 'prolly' will be a formal, archaic spelling of their word 'broi', or something.
Few centuries time, 'prolly' will be a formal, archaic spelling of their word 'broi', or something.
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I can speak English and some Albanian. I'm also taking basic French in my school. (Options were: Spanish, Chinese, or French)
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It's interesting how language changes like that. I have learnt a lot about it in English class this year due to Shakespeare. It also seems to me that older English has more in common with other modern European languages than modern English does.
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English y Español (forgot most of the latter, actually)
EDIT: Dos clases del Español.
No Esquio en la noche. No hago a los bolos. Ayeeeeee!!
I also know what E Plaribus Unum and L'etoile Du Nord stands for, but that's because of a presidential speech and Google Translate.
EDIT: Dos clases del Español.
No Esquio en la noche. No hago a los bolos. Ayeeeeee!!
I also know what E Plaribus Unum and L'etoile Du Nord stands for, but that's because of a presidential speech and Google Translate.
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¿Porque no esquias por la noche? Es lo mas divertidoAnthroguy101 wrote:English y Español (forgot most of the latter, actually)
EDIT: Dos clases del Español.
No Esquio en la noche. No hago a los bolos. Ayeeeeee!!
I also know what E Plaribus Unum and L'etoile Du Nord stands for, but that's because of a presidential speech and Google Translate.
Yo tampoco se jugar a los bolos
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¿Los bolos? ¿Que es eso? Yo no he escuchado de eso antes... ¿Pueda ser jugar al baloncesto? También, yo averiguo si es posible hacer un thread en español, pero yo creo que eso haría la gente un poquito triste, ¿no? Pero en un sentido, eso haría que la gente que lo están practicando poder practicarlo más.
One thing I hate about the upside down question and exclamation marks is that they bother me because it's putting too much emphasis on the whole or part of a sentence...
One thing I hate about the upside down question and exclamation marks is that they bother me because it's putting too much emphasis on the whole or part of a sentence...
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Boliche
¿Porque haria a la gente triste?
Y si esta perfecta la idea de un Thread en Español, asi quienes lo quieren aprender pueden practicar y mejorar
¿Porque odias el signo de interrogacion "¿" ?
¿Porque haria a la gente triste?
Y si esta perfecta la idea de un Thread en Español, asi quienes lo quieren aprender pueden practicar y mejorar
¿Porque odias el signo de interrogacion "¿" ?
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¿En Español, dicen "thread" en la Red? ¿No hay una palabra Español para "thread" cuando estan hablando del foros?
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I don't mean to correct your French, but it's "Parlez-vous anglais?" I can't correct the "C" in "francais" because I don't know how to do special letters....Beagle wrote:D=
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My shoulder is bad, that's why. Also, how dare you insult bowling. (You're probably just jealous because I'm better than you).Alex M. wrote:¿Porque no esquias por la noche? Es lo mas divertidoAnthroguy101 wrote:English y Español (forgot most of the latter, actually)
EDIT: Dos clases del Español.
No Esquio en la noche. No hago a los bolos. Ayeeeeee!!
I also know what E Plaribus Unum and L'etoile Du Nord stands for, but that's because of a presidential speech and Google Translate.
Yo tampoco se jugar a los bolos
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Je suis Alex. Je suis Français, et cela est la seule langue que je parle.Beagle wrote:D=
Parle vous francais?? Parle vous anglais?
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¿Porque no esquias por la noche? Es lo mas divertido
Yo tampoco se jugar a los bolos [/quote]
My shoulder is bad, that's why. Also, how dare you insult bowling. (You're probably just jealous because I'm better than you).[/quote]
I didn't insult bowling
I just stated that i don't know to play.
Yo tampoco se jugar a los bolos [/quote]
My shoulder is bad, that's why. Also, how dare you insult bowling. (You're probably just jealous because I'm better than you).[/quote]
I didn't insult bowling
I just stated that i don't know to play.
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It's not really complicated. You just roll the ball and try to hit as many pins as possible. The only thing that's at all complicated is the scoring system and knowing when it's your turn, which someone else can always keep track of for you.
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I don't speak much French.
I speak French.Beagle wrote:D=
Parle vous francais?? Parle vous anglais?
CROISSANT!
I don't speak much French.
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