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Pronunciation Round #2 --- IRAN (pg. 5)
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| wotyzoid |
| quote: | Originally posted by Vector A
It's the Southern pen-pin merger. The resulting sound actually ends up as neither of those vowels, though, instead becoming /piən/ (PEEun). Same diphthong as in standard American pronunciation of "reel." |
Holy my 'real' and 'reel' sound the same
ee-ROLL THE R-an
that's the closest you're gonna get me thinks |
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| Lira |
Like I said, I'm not a native speaker, so I'm sure you guys know about the pin-pen merger a lot better than I do. Wikipedia fooled me though, because it never mentioned it was a diphthong, damn Wiki! :mad:
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
This thread is reminding me how much I hated phonetics at university. |
Wait, really!? You like sounds (erm... music) and language, but you don't like phonetics? Heh, didn't see it coming.
| quote: | Originally posted by Vector A
I love this . But then I was never forced to take a class on it. Things are usually more fun that way. |
I didn't really mind most classes I had on phonetics. I self-taught myself the stuff when I was 18 and I still have an IPA chart above my bed, so the lecturers often let me pronounce the sounds they couldn't say (like uvular trills and lateral fricatives). That was fun.
This usually happened in the beginning of the semester, so the lecturers would let me mind my own business in class and play solitaire on my computer :p |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by wotyzoid
Holy my 'real' and 'reel' sound the same |
I don't think that's uncommon (or it could be the fact we're both influenced by the same language :p), there's a discussion about it here, but it's funny that not even the natives seem to agree on whether they sound the same or not.
Probably like "paz" and "pais" in Portuguese. I don't care if they don't rhyme to purists, I pronounce them exactly the same way :p |
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| Sushipunk |
| Real and reel should sound the same! |
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| Vector A |
Yeah, they definitely sound the same to me.
Say "Was it a real reel?" and "Was the reel real?" |
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| rubez |
these yankies and their pronunciations.
it's iran. like irk and an. iran. very simple.
i like their one for cement. "c-ment".
or mirror. "miire". |
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| Vector A |
| quote: | Originally posted by rubez
these yankies and their pronunciations.
it's iran. like irk and an. iran. very simple.
i like their one for cement. "c-ment".
or mirror. "miire". |
I'm sure that some of your fellow British citizens would have plenty of nice things to say about your accent. |
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| Vector A |
| quote: | Originally posted by rubez
i am british. |
Thus "fellow British citizens."
Are you not also Scottish? |
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| rubez |
yes, different accents are one thing.
pronouncing words in a stupid way is another. what is that? to stand out? eye-ran. preposterous.
i'm sure condy used to say "eye-ran", then flipped back to normality to say iranian (not eye-ranian)
WTF. |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by rubez
i am british. |
Might be the first time I've heard a Scot say that, lol. |
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| rubez |
:stongue:
technically.
i'm not a queen saluting motherer, i have a friend who is though. |
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