• m_f@midwest.social
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    4 hours ago

    You’ll like this poem:

    https://ncf.idallen.com/english.html

    The start of it:

    Gerard Nolst Trenité - The Chaos (1922)

    Dearest creature in creation Studying English pronunciation, I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse.

    I will keep you, Susy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy; Tear in eye, your dress you’ll tear; Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer.

  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    I like what you did there, and I get it, but, I don’t hear “are” when I see our, I hear “hour”.

    Now I’m just curious which is more common.

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      We would definitely pronounce our as “are” in some cases., usually when referring to a person. “Our kid” or “Our Jack” would have been pronounced “are”.

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        Must be a regional thing because for me “our” always sounds like “hour” no matter what

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          For me, I think it just depends. Kind of like how “the” can be “thee” or “thuh” depending on how much I’m enunciating.

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      Not gon lie, but i have no idea what this reads. I can maybe make sense of the “Gramm her” part reading as “Grammar” but not much beyond that 😅

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        Nguyen (a Korean name that is common in America pronounced like “when”)

        Ewe (female sheep, pronounced like “you”)

        egg (egg only because it sounds a little lile “ig-” )

        noire (french for the color black, sometimes used in English, pronounced like “-nore”)

        Egg-noire (ignore)

        Gramm her (grammar)

        So with our sentences together it would be: “In English there are no rules, when you ignore grammar.”