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minus-squareTabbsTheBat@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·11 days agoOr you can look up how to pronounce it. The IPA and often audio pronunciations aren’t that hard to find, unless you speak a more obscure language
minus-squareBeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·11 days agoSo many of the audio pronunciations are computer generated, I used to like IPA but then I stopped drinking so it doesn’t really help any more.
minus-squareTabbsTheBat@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 days agoInternational phonetic alphabet :3… though trying to pronounce some of the sounds in it does make you want the other kind of IPA lol
minus-squareDozzi92@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 days agoI just wouldn’t think to look up a word I assumed I was pronouncing correctly. I’m pretty good at this reading thing, and so I apply the standards, but words like epitome and ethereal are just here to fuck with us.
minus-squareTabbsTheBat@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-210 days agoTbf a call line wouldn’t help you in that case either, which is the premise of this. You wouldn’t call about words you assume you know
minus-squaresamus12345@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 days agoI can’t imagine “ethereal” being pronounced any other way than the correct one. “Etha-real?”
minus-squareDozzi92@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 days agoPretty much, yeah. Eth-er-eal.
Or you can look up how to pronounce it. The IPA and often audio pronunciations aren’t that hard to find, unless you speak a more obscure language
So many of the audio pronunciations are computer generated, I used to like IPA but then I stopped drinking so it doesn’t really help any more.
International phonetic alphabet :3… though trying to pronounce some of the sounds in it does make you want the other kind of IPA lol
I just wouldn’t think to look up a word I assumed I was pronouncing correctly. I’m pretty good at this reading thing, and so I apply the standards, but words like epitome and ethereal are just here to fuck with us.
Tbf a call line wouldn’t help you in that case either, which is the premise of this. You wouldn’t call about words you assume you know
I can’t imagine “ethereal” being pronounced any other way than the correct one. “Etha-real?”
Pretty much, yeah. Eth-er-eal.