#pronunciation

[mindless-polls]

How do you read (pronounce) the abbreviation “vs.” in your head?

“Versus”

“Verse”

Another way

I don’t pronounce/“hear” words in my head when reading

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[dan--q]

Fighting about the correct way to pronounce GIF is so last decade. Let's fight about how to pronounce JPEG. 🔗 Via: https://danq.me/jpeg

[squishoffgrandmas-ex]

How would you pronounce the name ‘Dri’?

Dry

Dree

Drei

Dreh

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[rosewind2007]

The irony of the fact that “read” [present tense, pronounced reed] and “read” [past tense, pronounced “red”] are written (and therefore read) exactly the same is not lost on me…

[dombomb64]

if 5 were pronounced like a letter would it sound like a b

what do you mean no

[someonesoonforgotten]

The people who are complaining about Emily Wilson’s Ancient Greek pronunciation have absolutely lost it.

She is reciting it by heart. If you are a linguist or have knowledge of languages, you should know that when something is learned by heart, it is not just the words but also the cadence and the inflections that are learned.

It is clear that her pronunciation is informed by her English education, both how she was taught it and how she currently engages with it as an academic. It is common in an educational context to modify the phonemes consciously or subconsciously to ones that are closer to one’s mother tongue. Those are the first stages of language learning and they become so engrained that they are hard to get rid off.

Wilson could probably read it without an English accent, but since she was reciting, both the language and its cadence, she was doing so in the way she has memorised over the years.

The people complaining have actually no knowledge it seems of how ancient language studies work or have worked for decades.

It’s just one more excuse to pretend to be more knowledgeable than a female scholar who has spent her life studying these matters.

I already wrote a post on that phenomenon and I am not going to repeat myself. It’s reactionary posturing by people who don’t want to put the work in but want to feel like they do.

[5m1ling-3yes]

how do you usually pronounce lol

letter by letter (el-oh-el)

as it's written (lol)

depends

Voting ended onAug 3