FiniteLooper, Every “e” in “Mercedes” is pronounced differently.
protist, An Austrian dude named the Mercedes line of cars after his daughter Mercédès Adrienne Ramona Manuela Jellinek. He got the name from Spanish, and in Spanish all the "e"s are pronounced the same
Earthwormjim91, Except for the ones with accent marks on them…
bingbong, Those are French accent marks… which only confuses me more🤔
Unimperfect, Except that the name written in Spanish does not have any accent markings, and even if it did, it would not change the pronunciation of the letter. Accent markings over vowels in Spanish simply denote syllable stress.
MudMan, Well, in Spanish none of the "e"s in "Mercedes" have an accent mark in them, and in Spanish the accent mark only flags the tonic syllable, it doesn't change the pronunciation.
So no.
That's how you spell that name in French, though. And yes, you do say all those the same there, too.
Obi, I’d say they sound slightly different in French, the middle e is a bit lower than the other two.
Matriks404, Then I guess I don’t pronounce it correctly at all.
Nepenthe, (edited )
metaStatic, a whole bunch of non-english words
ok buddy
Matthew, Do a lot of people not pronounce the L in calm?
funkless_eck, most don’t release it. It’s usually a slightly rounding/coloring of the vowel, but most accents don’t say “callum” / “callam” / “callem”
Nepenthe, Yeah, I had to sit there and say it til it didn't sound like a word anymore, and my eventual decision is that I do pronounce it, but barely and perhaps not always. I think I'm more prone to "com."
asdfasdfasdf, Whoever wrote it was probably from Boston.
StereoTrespasser, Really grasping at straws with Q and V there.
superfes, But… it’s only one of the "C"s…
Echrichor, deleted_by_author
The_Picard_Maneuver, It’s like you transformed into K. Rool there for a sec.
MonkderZweite, You guys pronounce?
DeanFogg, Pakific othan
x4740N, That’s because we’re not sounding out the c on its own
DoucheAsaurus, LMCO
Laughing My Coccyx Off
andthenthreemore, A rough-coated, dough-faced ploughman strode, coughing and hiccoughing, thoughtfully through the streets of Loughborough.
MonsiuerPatEBrown, (edited ) Dr. Johnson (the dude in the meme) actually wrote a great preface to his dictionary. It is about how to think about language and how to write a book describing language.
Great read.
ShroOmeric, People like you are the bright side of internet.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot, Truly a man worthy of one’s most enthusiastic contrafibularities.
JohnDClay, The bottom picture is also just in his favorite restaurant in London. I was kinda surprised when I came across it.
The_Picard_Maneuver, That’s fascinating and surprisingly appropriate for this meme.
dragonflyteaparty, Currently going through this with my six year old. It’s really hard to help her learn to read without just doing it for her over and over because pronunciation is shit. She can’t just sound it out when the same letter sounds three different ways.
Dass93, I learned English by watching shows first in Danish(my tongue) then in English, and was forced to use English in games, this was the way I learned it.
They tried in school but the way teacher’s used to teach English just didn’t made sense fore many of us.
NigelFrobisher, Actually it’s pronounced “specific”.
ummthatguy, Trying to learn “i before e”
https://media.tenor.com/1TvCFfEd2wwAAAAd/anton-chigurh-rule.gif
ProvokedGamer, (edited ) True, but the full saying is, “I before E, except after C or when sounded as A as in neighbour and weigh. And weird is just weird.” There are still some exceptions to this rule though but most of the time, it’ll work.
There’s also a version that was taught to some people that goes like, “I before E, except after C, for words sounding like E” which worked most of the time too back when that saying was made (since we use more words of Greek origin now that break this rule).
ummthatguy, Not mine, but gets the point across:
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a23ded59-f9be-4150-904b-7e3d1d6147c4.webp
And yes, English is an endlessly exhaustive exercise in eloquence and execution.
pigup, How to reset an entire language
iAmTheTot, Actually, that "full version" is still more wrong than it is right. For example: fancier, species, their, heist, foreign, vein, seize, science, Raleigh, Keith, Neil, either and neither, leisure, deity, atheism (ironic), reignite, albeit.
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