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Then why isn't it romanized in a way that makes it sound right?Quote:
Originally Posted by Quin
It's pinyin. Chinese sounds using the English alphabet to make it easier to communicate. They may be the same letters, but they aren't the same sounds. C, for example, is pronounced "ts", and Zh is pronounced like a soft "g". It's a completely different language, not just "improper English".Quote:
Originally Posted by Mercen-X
Whangarei
Theory
Pizza
Pizza is pronounced how it's spelled if you pronounce it properly
Oh man, Maori pronunciation is the best. I went to Lake Taupo and it looks like it sounds like "tow-po" but it's like "toe-paw". Whangarei is even better. Whakatane is just :hahaha:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mercen-X
So then "Pete saw" is not proper...Quote:
Originally Posted by shion
BTW: Longevity. It's typically pronounced like there's a second g. "Long-jevity". The name Longinus is pronounced "Lon-ginus". Range is not pronounced "rang-j"... so yeah.
Rapport, Corps, and any other word where consonants are silent... why the hell have the letter in the word if you're not going to pronounce? Aesthetics?
Theory is spelled exactly how it's pronounced.
Also, there are hard gs and soft gs, so longevity is also pronounced exactly how it's spelled.
The actual pronunciation of my username, 'Alive-Man' is actually gid-dee-drat-son-drat-son. Hardly anyone knows this.
Really? I never realized it was pronounced "the ory". I've been pronouncing it wrong all of this time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Quin
Examples, please.Quote:
Also, there are hard gs and soft gs, so longevity is also pronounced exactly how it's spelled.
Gel. Soft G.
Gym. Soft G.
Tucson.
I had never seen Tucson spelled and said at the same time (& was most likely passed out in Geography) ... I thought there was "Tuck-sun" & "Two-son". I have no idea how or why I came to this conclusion, but then I was watching "Cops" & caught it.
My dad nearly throttled me. lmao. He was like "You. Are clearly not my child." & then he was calling it "Tuck-sun" for months. mwahaha
I actually meant for more examples like Longevity wherein the ng and the "j" sounds occur simultaneously.
My primary school once held a contest to see if anyone could pronounce Lake Rerewhakaaitu properly. The common informal (and incorrect) pronunciation was something like "rooroo smurf eye two".Quote:
Originally Posted by JiroOh man, Maori pronunciation is the best. I went to Lake Taupo and it looks like it sounds like "tow-po" but it's like "toe-paw". Whangarei is even better. Whakatane is just :hahaha:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mercen-X
Fringe. Orange. Range. Binge. Singe. Arrange. Derange. Enjoy. And so on. At least in my dialect of English these all have the same sound as longevity.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mercen-X
It's ridiculous to have a letter with two sounds when there is already another letter that makes one of them.
Let's also scrap C then - we have Ks and Ss.Quote:
Originally Posted by blackmage_nuke
ch isn't represented by any other sound, but other than that, yeah, c is pretty close to linguistically useless in English.