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ceigered (הצגת פרופיל) 14 באוקטובר 2009, 13:45:04
Ailanto:(More offtopic: The teacher for a Russian course I took in college was from Brooklyn. I don't think we ever managed to convince her that she had an accent. We'd pronounce words *exactly* like she did and she'd say No No No, like this, and we'd do it again, and she'd say No No No, like this, so we'd pronounce them not like she did but like on the audio tapes and she'd say Good.)Ega LOL! I take it she wasn't Russian?
ljbookworm (הצגת פרופיל) 14 באוקטובר 2009, 19:25:30
But only because I roll r's naturally. Voice recognition software (like brain Training) can't understand scots accents, especially when saying the word "red".And if that's not offtopic i don't know what is.
RiotNrrd (הצגת פרופיל) 15 באוקטובר 2009, 03:35:16
Iĉo:I was actually just kidding a bit when I posted that. We really do have more than one vowel - it's just that we TEND to use schwas a little more than we probably ought to.RiotNrrd:That's because we americans only have one vowel - the schwa.Pronouncing "up", "sun" and "love" with a schwa just sounds weird. It doesn't sound American, it just sounds weird.
Overusing schwas is by far the easiest way to talk without moving our lips more than we absolutely have to.
ceigered (הצגת פרופיל) 15 באוקטובר 2009, 06:18:42
RiotNrrd:Overusing schwas is by far the easiest way to talk without moving our lips more than we absolutely have to.Next on the list for American English:
- Glottal stops replacing T, K, D, and anything else of the nature
- Replace 'k' with a light 'ĥ' in between vowels in quick speech
- Replace 'g' with a harder 'y' kind of sound
- Getting rid of the 'r' after vowels when there's a consonant after (ah' not art
)- Pronouncing 'n's without actually touching behind your teeth.
- Pronouncing the 'a' in class, glass, bath etc like you do the 'a' in 'father', thus further widening the use of the 'ah' sound.
- Have further forward 'u's so you don't have to worry about stressing the differences between 'o/aw' sounds and 'u' sounds.
THEN she'll be roit
jchthys (הצגת פרופיל) 15 באוקטובר 2009, 14:09:22
ljbookworm:As a scotswoman, I think rolled r's are the best part of esperanto.I think there is software that understands Scottish English. Dictate apparently can.
Ailanto (הצגת פרופיל) 17 באוקטובר 2009, 23:13:39
ceigered:Nope.Ailanto:(More offtopic: The teacher for a Russian course I took in college was from Brooklyn. I don't think we ever managed to convince her that she had an accent. We'd pronounce words *exactly* like she did and she'd say No No No, like this, and we'd do it again, and she'd say No No No, like this, so we'd pronounce them not like she did but like on the audio tapes and she'd say Good.)Ega LOL! I take it she wasn't Russian?
Vilius (הצגת פרופיל) 15 בנובמבר 2009, 18:49:46
I wonder how many requests did they get..
Vilius (הצגת פרופיל) 15 בנובמבר 2009, 18:49:56
Mike (הצגת פרופיל) 16 בנובמבר 2009, 00:12:01
Vilius (הצגת פרופיל) 16 בנובמבר 2009, 09:19:15
Mike:I'll send an email. What email address should I send it to?proposals@google.com
See the first post by erinja.