Modern Styrash...?

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« Reply #45 on: 08 January 2003, 15:48:00 »

Don't worry, Vir....I don't really understand it either.
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« Reply #46 on: 09 January 2003, 02:00:00 »

*Worries about the powers that be statment then repeats herself*

Your not an idiot, nobodys pissed at you.

You have a valid concept, and you've brought up issues that need to be addressed. We need to make the whole accent issue a bit clearer.

Perhaps I can discuss the issue with arti and produce a spoken alaphabet and some spoken examples of styrash next time I go to do some recording. That would make it easier for us English speakers to get our heads round the different sounds.


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Re: well

« Reply #47 on: 09 January 2003, 03:00:00 »

good idea

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Re: well

« Reply #48 on: 09 January 2003, 09:11:00 »

An excellent Idea. It can be done with a Microphone at One's home though; Uragel used to record her voice.

Anyway; was falling asleep last night and realized something that other people may not know about english that WE take for granted.

In english, the letters A E I O and U ( and sometimes Y) are called Vowels. They are seperated from the rest of the alphabet becuase they can make two different sounds; Long and Short. This part may get a little weird, but hang on.

Short vowels take on the sound of the pronounced letter.

A= ay
E= Ee
I = ai
O = Oh
U = you
Y= wii

Long vowels take on a drawn-out sound.

A= ahh
E= eh
I = ih
O= oh
U= ooh
Y= yuh

In english, these vowels change CONSTANTLY between long and short; Sometimes the only way we can be sure of the pronounciation of a word is to look it up in a Dictionary. This perhaps may explain why we don't use Accents.

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Re: well

« Reply #49 on: 09 January 2003, 11:00:00 »

Well, as you mention the dictionary, Viresse: There is a pronounication language as well, you know, which you can find in every dictionary. This language is universal standard, so that if someone learns another language he/she knows how to pronounce things. See here for example: Pronounciation Keys So providing some example words this way could help as well.

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