zinniabooklover
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oh my goodness, haven't even read the whole comment and I'm jumping in already! Let me emphasise again, no criticism was intended. I understand perfectly why you include the IPA and if I don't understand it, so what? Other people will and, anyway, it's your comment. You write whatever you want, obvs!Point taken @zinniabooklover, I have mostly included IPA transcriptions for my own sake. Although to be fair, I did write it out in “plain English”, too. But I will nevertheless keep the IPA stuff to a minimum henceforth. You’ll have to excuse me, I get carried away.
Bc you write stuff out in plain English as well as using the IPA, of course your comments are perfectly intelligible to me. I was just whining bc I'm not mad keen on jargon. Even when I understand it - which is often - I still don't like it. That's just me! Thank goodness we live in a world where other reactions or opinions are available!
Same.About the technical jargon in general, I will say this: I’m only human, and I guess you can read between the lines that I am ”on the spectrum”, as they say these days.
Sort of the same and yet not. With me it's more that I over-compensate - to the point where everyone is either dying of boredom or just of old age!I get absorbed and fail to adapt my language to my audience.
No, absolutely not! I disagree with this entirely. Peeps should write their comments how they see fit and as long as we are all respectful and so on, where's the harm in just being yourself? You are always gonna be more into this stuff than me. Don't dilute your comments just bc I was whining like a baby, lol.When you point it out, I can see it, and that makes me think that there is some hope. I will try my best to tone down the advanced terms,
Exactly so!That is indeed IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet). The way I can justify its use in this instance, is that we are on a multilingual forum.
Indeed. I am acutely aware that the world exists beyond the English language. I did languages at school* but you would never know it, sadly.The language we use is of course English, but when a person that is not a native English speaker stumbles upon a morpheme for the first time, chances are he won’t read it the same way a native speaker would.
* school in the UK means ages 5 - 18. After that it's college or university. I know in America 'school' also means college or uni.
Just to be clear.
I really don't think it's going to happen. Honestly, I have tried to get my head around the whole IPA thing, multiple times. There are some things - music notation is one that comes to mind - that just will not go in. My brain just dumps them and then laughs at me.“Shamone” written just as so, would in Swedish be something like “sha-må-nä”.
If we can pick up a few basics, the beauty of an international phonetic alphabet becomes clear.
ʃ she ʌ other ɔ thought
Consonants are for the most part the same as the ones used in written English.
Svenska. That is the sum total of my Swedish language expertise. I love the way it looks as a written word. I cannot find a way of inserting it into my everyday life so am doomed to merely admire it in its written form, lol.In Swedish, that would be read as something like “äp-pi-tå-mä”, whereas the pronunciation you want to communicate (correct me if I’m wrong) is what we would write “äp-paj´toum”.
I also know Flemish. Tot ziens! Er, that's it. That's my full Flemish vocab!
My humour is ridiculously childish. Heavy on the sarcasm. You know, in case you hadn't spotted that.I figured it was something along those lines
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