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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Jun 21, 2010 17:05:27 GMT -5
This is NOT new, at least in these parts. Somehow, the phonetic "R" sound winds up in the damndest places. Also, the phonetic "L." How does "tomorrow" become "tomorrowl?" It's the velarized alveolar lateral approximant L pronounciation that causes that trouble (e.g. "hell" as opposed to "lock"). It has stronger dental articulations (basically speaking, your tongue touches your teeth) and isn't that common in many Romance or Asiatic languages, which leads to confusion with the R sound (due to the dental articulation). That's where they stereotype of Japanese people replacing L with R comes from. They don't have that sound natively in their language. Yet they sure love to give objects and characters in anime, manga, video games, tv shows, movies, and books names that have Ls in them, despite not being able to pronounce that sound properly. ;D |
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Post by AFN: Judge Shred on Jun 21, 2010 17:07:16 GMT -5
Earl is old, very, very old.
Some from my Dad
Warsh = wash
pal-low = pillow
gorsh = gosh (not nearly as endearing as when Goofy would do it)
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Post by @TenaciousBe on Jun 21, 2010 17:12:50 GMT -5
I can understand your body / mind naturally messing things up once in a while, but when you consistently and intentionally pronounce words with sounds they don't have, it comes off as incredibly ignorant to me.
For instance, I came up with my band's first album title, "From Atrophy To Ecstacy." My lead singer had never heard the word "atrophy" before and pronounced it "Aptrophy." For like, months. I finally had to correct him because I was about to explode on him if he didn't knock it off. I don't care if you've never heard the word before, I SAID IT TO YOU FIRST. YOU SHOULD KNOW HOW TO PRONOUNCE A WORD IN THE TITLE OF YOUR OWN ALBUM.
He also says "eckspecially" but I try to ignore that one.
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Post by Long A, Short A on Jun 21, 2010 18:33:10 GMT -5
I feel your pain, Tenacious {N}.
Most of the people in my family are like the lead singer in your band. Two thirds of the words my mom used are mispronounced. My cousin sounds like a high school drop out even though she has a college degree. My brother makes up words for things that already have words. There are so many words and terms I didn't get the gist of for a long time because people in my family speak crazy.
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Post by The Booty Disciple on Jun 22, 2010 23:14:54 GMT -5
This is NOT new, at least in these parts. Somehow, the phonetic "R" sound winds up in the damndest places. Also, the phonetic "L." How does "tomorrow" become "tomorrowl?" It's the velarized alveolar lateral approximant L pronounciation that causes that trouble (e.g. "hell" as opposed to "lock"). It has stronger dental articulations (basically speaking, your tongue touches your teeth) and isn't that common in many Romance or Asiatic languages, which leads to confusion with the R sound (due to the dental articulation). That's where they stereotype of Japanese people replacing L with R comes from. They don't have that sound natively in their language. Heh...I'm a quarter Japanese. You're speaking to the choir... My grandmother migrated in the '50s. She cracks me up with her accent. "May I take your order, prease?" |
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