#dipthongs

[sunnylexi7]

transcribe the diphthongs

Give me the dipthongs

[chaoskirin]

My brain at 3am instead of sleeping: The word “smog” was first used in 1905 to describe a smoke fog. At first it was specifically from the smoke that came from coal fires, though it’s come to mean many things in more recent years. The word “smog” didn’t achieve widespread use until at least the 1930s, and even moreso in the 1950s. In any case, at the time The Hobbit was written, “smog” was a known word.

My brain at 3:04am instead of sleeping: Tolkien named his dragon “Smaug,” knowing full-well that it would make sense for the name to be pronounced “smog” because it’s a fukin smoke dragon that makes fukin smoke but he decided ‘au’ needed to be pronounced like ‘ow,’ who the fuck does that. what the fuk is a smawg

My brain at 3:06am instead of sleeping: Movie makers in 2001 decided that “Sauron” was pronounced like “sore-on” instead of “Sow-ron” as Tolkien intended. Because that made fuckin sense. Yet when it came to pronouncing “Smaug,” they decided they had to go with Tolkien’s intended pronunciation EVEN THOUGH they knew the pronunciation “smog” would make more sense and infuriate fewer people

My brain at 3:10am instead of sleeping: I’m going to start pronouncing all words containing “au” with Tolkien’s pronunciation. August. Auspicious. Dinosaur. Paul. Automobile. Slaughter. Fraud. Maul.

[mvskokevocab]

Important Note- Dipthongs

I have said previously that Mvskoke is very phonetic, meaning that however a word is spelled that is how you say it and how you say it is how you spell it. While this is mostly true, there are always excpetions, these being in the form of three dipthongs: i, v o, and ue.

"i" Dipthong: Sounds like the ey in hey or like the e in bed

"vo": sounds like owe

"ue" sounds like oy

[thelioninmybed]

June: does Maedhros [> Maedros] indicate that at one point he DID get a hard d

Lion: Yeah, Fingon def. gave him one

[ohmygoly]

I think I'm starting to realize, and correct me if I'm wrong, that part of the thing with accents from foreigners speaking English is that we have vowels with dipthongs for whatever reason. The long a (eh->ee and i (ah->ee) sounds for example. So when someone says the word "bake" it might sound like they're saying "bek" or "beek". When they say the word "time" it could sound closer to "tahm" or "teem" (Standard French pronounces its i vowels like this). There is also the long o vowel with a short o sound -> oo sound. Though, that's a little less dipthongy. If you have the word "close" for example, because its less dipthongy it would sound more similar but with some strong emphasis on the "uh" sound or "oo" sound depending (closs vs cloos) or both at once. Anyways, I am not a linguist, but I can at least imagine this being the case in Celtic and Nordic languages at least, as well as some southern accents.

lemme know if you think I'm right on this and what languages do have dipthongs commonly as well cause I have no idea.

[elprofeinternacional]

(Jerry Gonzales)

[koreanamerican]

Update #1

I started learning Hangul about two/three weeks ago. So far I can read every consonants vowels, and double vowels. Though I’m having a little trouble with diphthongs, I’m progressing. I’m starting to learn the pronunciation of letters and positioning. -13/11/16-

[newyorkvocalcoaching]

Diphthongs are something that many singers have been told to correct. But, what's a Diphthong anyway? And what difference does it make for being a great singer? Find out in Episode 51, as New York Vocal Coaching's Justin Stoney explores how to master Diphthongs as they apply to both style and technique. Enjoy Voice Lessons To The World!

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