Starker on 23/11/2016 at 23:29
Heh, have you ever had to transcribe English? There are so many possibilities for both writing down the same phoneme as well as pronouncing the one and the same character, it's not even funny.
Oh, and by transcribe I mean stuff like (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet) IPA, not just writing down what you hear.
demagogue on 24/11/2016 at 02:09
Yes, English is the combination of 6 languages, so spelling conventions are all over the place. German spells like it sounds. Even with the German part of English though, we had a great vowel switch that changed the sound of the spellings.
I love how much this thread is helping 'Koob decorate his apartment. :D
Renzatic on 24/11/2016 at 02:59
Quote Posted by Starker
Heh, have you ever had to transcribe English? There are so many possibilities for both writing down the same phoneme as well as pronouncing the one and the same character, it's not even funny.
Oh, and by transcribe I mean stuff like (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet) IPA, not just writing down what you hear.
Nope! But couldn't the same thing be said of most other languages to some extent? French, for instance. For a goodly number of instances, the letters that make up the last syllable of a word tend to be more a guide, a way to softly imply its pronunciation, rather than a hard target.
...though I guess I could argue that there is some consistency to even that, something which English lacks.
Starker on 24/11/2016 at 03:06
French has similar difficulties when you want to write it down, but it's pretty reliably consistent when you read it.
Yakoob on 24/11/2016 at 18:20
Yea, accent aside, I find reading french not too difficult. But there are still English words I mispronounce because of the inconsistent rules (tho that's been mostly rooted out by now).
SubJeff on 24/11/2016 at 22:10
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I don't watch TV... ...no point for a TV-space.
Your problem right here.
Alt - a proper desktop PC and desk?
hopper on 25/11/2016 at 08:21
Install a panic room cube. With a toilet and a jacuzzi.
faetal on 25/11/2016 at 18:45
Build a miniature version of your apartment for the empty space.
