#phonetic — Public Fediverse posts

People on the various #YouTube channels I follow haven't settled on a pronunciation for the last syllable of the Strait of Hormuz. Many say /hɔːrˈmuːz/ (final vowel like 'boo'), but others prefer /hɔːrˈmʊz/ (like 'look'), and others still /hɔːrˈməʊz/¹ ('no').

[1] Really? I go from the vowel in 'bo͝ok' to the one in 'gō' by sticking a schwa in front of the upsilon? That's what the ipachart·app site says, but it seems off to me. #IPA #phonetic

Mariah Carey criticised for using phonetic teleprompter at Winter Olympics opening

However, puzzled online viewers questioned why Carey, who is not Italian, was selected to perform it. “I love…
#NewsBeep #News #Music #after #at #AU #Australia #been #being #carey #ceremony #criticised #diva #during #Entertainment #for #from #Italian #Lyrics #Mariah #olympics #Online #opening #performance #phonetic #Reading #roasted #spotted #teleprompter #using #winter
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/472768/

Random Wikipedia #criticism (rant?)...

One of the things that bugs me about (English) #Wikipedia is how aspects of it are controlled by, for lack of a better word, #pedants, without consideration of the actual #readers - without considering the purpose of an encyclopedia.

One example of this is how, when an article features aspects of another language or dialect - for instance, something from Old English, or Arabic - where the reader will not be familiar with how to pronounce something presented transliterated to a modern Latin/English alphabet, or with a word shown in a non-Latin script entirely.

It used to be common in reference works to give a simple #pronunciation key that was at least close to the correct pronunciation, but was easily understood by a normal literate reader. You know; the stuff that looked like "ED-joo-KAY-shun" or "SHEH-joo-ull" or whatever.

Well, that's not good enough for Wikipedia most of the time. Instead, they give the pronunciation in International #Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), so you get stuff like "æɪ" and "aʊ" and "/ɔː/".

These are absolutely more #accurate guides to how a word should sound. And they are absolutely, completely #useless and #uninformative to 99% of people reading the article.

You know who already knows and is completely comfortable reading #IPA?

#Linguists. Students of language.

You know, the people who *already know* how to #pronounce the words. The people who don't actually need it.

#FFS.

#pedant #unhelpful #rant

@UnicodeWatch

Interesting to see letters like :Dania_LongI:, :Phonotypic_ith:, and :Phonotypic_oi: proposed for inclusion in Unicode! :Unicode:

#EnglishPhonotypicAlphabet #PhonotypicAlphabet #Phonotypic #Dania #Phonetic #Phonetics #PhoneticTranscription #Unicode

#Map of eastern #England annotated in #phonetic #Polish .
#language

I got my first #tattoo!
It's the #phonetic #transcription of *how* my #toddler said *his* #firstWord.

#firstTattoo #IPA

Our new #OpenAccess paper is out in Scientific Reports today!
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-77634-w My coauthors and I jokingly called it "the masterpiece" because it wraps up a research line I began during my PhD... 10 years ago! Here's a quick thread on the backstory and what we found: https://fediscience.org/@LeoVarnet/113469639569615172. @psycholinguistic @psycholinguistic #psycholinguistics #psycholinguistique #phonetic #phonetics #NewPaper #NewArticle #ScienceMastodon

Our new #OpenAccess paper is out in Scientific Reports today! My coauthors and I jokingly called it "the masterpiece" because it wraps up a research line I began during my PhD ... 10 years ago! Here's a quick thread on the backstory and what we found. [1/X]
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-77634-w @psycholinguistics @psycholinguistic #psycholinguistics #psycholinguistique #phonetic #phonetics #NewPaper #NewArticle #ScienceMastodon

The #NATO #Phonetic #Alphabet from #TfL's Big Red Book Fifth Edition (guidance for #London Bus drivers).

Which is used by London Bus drivers to spell out a street name or a vehicle registration over the radio to the NMCC (Network Management Control Centre), formerly CentreComm.

What #Alien Clouds Can Tell Us About #Life Beyond #Earth : Medium

Scientists say they’ve discovered a ‘#Phonetic #Alphabet’ in #Whale calls : CNN

How to Start #Strength #Training if You’ve Never Done It Before : Time

Check our latest #KnowledgeLinks

https://knowledgezone.co.in/resources/bookmarks

#Phonetic Password #Generator | generatore di #password fonetiche
#sicurezza

https://webappsmagazine.blogspot.com/2024/02/phonetic-password-generator-generatore.html

@jzillw Your solution of recording your pronunciation is good! There is a system of writing where each symbol represents one and only one sound. It's called IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet). The characters are based on the anatomy of making sounds (position of tongue, lips, etc.) I worked with an engineer from China who mentioned that when learning English in school, they also learned IPA since English letters can represent more than one sound. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet #ipa #phonetic

@trochee

I had this pendant 3D-printed for my girlfriend [now wife]. It's the IPA-letter ɕ or "c with curl" (U+0255), which stands for the voiceless alveolo-palatal sibilant, or the sound normally spelled sj in Danish. | #lingvistik #linguistics #unicode #ipa #internationalphoneticalphabet #sje #voiceless #alveolopalatal #sibilant #consonant #phonetics #phonetic #jewelry #3dprint #3dprinting #ɕ #munk_typography

(First posted 11 May 2017 by me [@][email protected])

#BestOfMyGrams

@riley @mcc
This is fascinating!

I've been studying #Czech, which shares a ton of #phonemes and #vocabulary with other #Slavic languages, but is written with a Latin-based character set (I say "Latin-based" because Czech uses an assortment of #diacritic marks as #pronunciation modifiers on an otherwise standard #Latin character set).

On several occasions, I've come across a #Russian or #Ukrainian word written in its native #Cyrillic script followed by a #phonetic pronunciation guide written in Latin characters, and consequently recognized the word as one that is shared with Czech. Those moments of recognition are just pure #linguistic glee.

@odddev what do you mean? That the glyph reads as if

<span title=Hotel>H</span><span title=Echo>E</span><span title=Lima>L</span><span title=Lima>L</span><span title=Oscar>O</span>

Of the International #Phonetic alphabet ?

Okay, this might be a dumb question, but how do you know whether a font supports the phonetic alphabet?

#css #fonts #phonetic #dev

My latest #phonetic transcription is the name of Tallon #Griekspoor, a tennis player who won his first ATP Tour singles title today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallon_Griekspoor

The last name is pretty straightforward to transcribe if you speak Dutch. But ‘Tallon’ is not a traditional Dutch name, so it could be anything in terms of pronunciation. I found a cute video from 2010 where Tallon Griekspoor, 13 years old then, pronounces his own name. So now we know, it is:

/ˈtɛlɔn ˈɣrik.spoːr/

#IPA #Phonetics

I did not want to keep on using #Duolingo, so I was looking for a new pastime, something that can be done on the phone and only takes a couple of minutes. Here is what I am doing now:

I have started adding #phonetic transcriptions to Wikipedia. There are decent guidelines and templates for many languages. And Gboard has a virtual keyboard that can be used for entering #IPA symbols.

This is my track record so far: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Isoglosse

Suggestions and comments welcome!

Dangnabit, tried speaking #French on the phone with a Hispanophone, they immediately heard my Spanish accent, so asked me to speak Spanish.

I mean, fine, okay, but what am I doing wrong?

I theoretically have enough #phonetic knowledge to know how to get rid of my accent. It's just difficult to spontaneously produce the necessary speech.

I wish for more formal training with someone who can recognise my speech patterns. I know it's almost "impossible" to get rid of an accent, but I wanna try!

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