Extremely pointless fact: "Tombs" is Portuguese for "oontz".
Tombs tombs tombs!
Posted by Mr.Mystery on Jan-21-2016 20:51:
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Originally posted by Lira
Extremely pointless fact: "Tombs" is Portuguese for "oontz".
Tombs tombs tombs!
SANDSTORM!
Posted by OrangestO on Jan-21-2016 21:03:
Once TA's c_ntiest mummy becomes a mommy of quadruplets, TA will thrive again.
Posted by Lira on Jan-21-2016 21:59:
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Originally posted by Mr.Mystery
SANDSTORM!
TOO-DOO-DUD-DUD-DUD-DUD-DOO DOO!!!
Tombs tombs tombs Posted by Vector A on Jan-22-2016 00:43:
So is that [tɔ̃bs]?
Posted by Lira on Jan-22-2016 02:32:
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Originally posted by Vector A
So is that [tɔ̃bs]?
Actually, I was reading it as you'd pronounce it (/tuːm/ in the singular) and assuming that native speakers wouldn't mind the addition of plosive between a nasal and a fricative as some speakers are wont to do just that (the ones for whom "cents" and "sense" rhyme, it might be your case?)... And exaggerating a bit (the ending result I had in mind is more like [tũts] )
Now, as for how I'd pronounce "tomb(s)" in Portuguese, the answer is ['tõ.bɪ(s)] (Tawm-bis) as in "Tomb Raider" ['tõbɪ 'haɪ.deh] (Tomby High Dech)... Because I speak a Southern-like variety of Portuguese in which closed vowels are preferred. I live just a few kilometres away from an isogloss where to my knowledge they favour open vowels, so maybe they'd say [tɔ̃.bɪ(s)] (the contrast between these two nasal vowels is not phonemic).
Also, Brazilian Portuguese abhors closed syllables so [tɔ̃b(s)] just could not happen (we do open exception for syllables ending with /r/ ([h] or [R] in my dialect) and /s/ because we hate rules... And because I'd hate it if my name became ['mah.kʊ.sɪ] ). And, yes, this does mean there's no [zil] in "Brazil" (rather, there's just a diphthong in the last syllable, [ziw] or [ziu̯] depending on who's writing).
(the ending result I had in mind is more like [tũts] 
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