• Hexboare [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      We’re not going to succeed in making English the dumbest lingua franca by making the sounds match the letters.

      20 vowel sounds for five vowel letters is language perfection

    • Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml
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      Your pronunciation examples confuse me greatly. “ah” from “alternative”? “eh” from “bad”? Certainly not in my accent.

    • WaterSword@discuss.tchncs.de
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      𐑞 𐑮𐑰𐑟𐑩𐑯 𐑞𐑨𐑑 𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯 𐑦𐑟 𐑯𐑪𐑑 𐑿𐑟𐑛 𐑦𐑟 𐑚𐑦𐑒𐑪𐑟 𐑦𐑑𐑕 𐑡𐑳𐑕𐑑 𐑦𐑥𐑐𐑪𐑕𐑩𐑚𐑩𐑤 𐑑𐑵 𐑒𐑩𐑯𐑝𐑦𐑯𐑕 𐑩 𐑚𐑦𐑤𐑘𐑩𐑯 𐑐𐑰𐑐𐑩𐑤 𐑑𐑵 𐑤𐑻𐑯 𐑣𐑶 𐑑𐑵 𐑮𐑰𐑛 𐑩𐑜𐑱𐑯

    • Krem [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      love going on anglo wickypedia and looking up a country, city, or non-anglo person from history

      pronunciation guides are first in some anglo gibberish fo-NEY-ticks with big SHOU-ty letters and nonsensical spelling, for some weird anglo pronunciation, and then IPA for the [weird] anglo pronunciation, and then the pronunciation in local language

      por ejemplo

      Hexbear (US: HAYKZ-buhr [IPA: 'hejks,bə:r]) (UK: HEKS-beh[IPA: 'heksbɶ:] ) (Marxist Standard: Hexbear [IPA: häx’bɑˑɾ̼])