• MudMan@fedia.io
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    7 months ago

    I don’t even know what “spelled phonetically” is supposed to mean in English. As far as I’m concerned that language is just a jumble of vowels that all sound the same but generate long arguments about how to pronounce things “correctly”.

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        7 months ago

        Kind of. The IPA doesn’t show weak forms so non-native speakers can be confused by them if they only ever learned the dictionary way of pronouncing a word.

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          7 months ago

          Ah that’s interesting, I didn’t know that.

          Still, the IPA is really helpful when trying to discuss pronunciation with someone who has a very different accent to ourselves.

          As a New Zealander I find some US phonetic spellings baffling.

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      7 months ago

      Phonetically means the way it sounds which would be “fonetik”