Gregory's ServerFor all you non-native English speakers out there, “read” is pronounced like “lead”, and “read” is pronounced like “lead”.
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@dgar I think my biggest problem when speaking English -which I don't do often- is forgetting a definition in the middle of a conversation. For instance, an ironing board is a "burro de planchar" in Spanish, which literally translates to "ironing donkey"  @beisbolcards @dgar That’s wonderful. The Brits have a “clothes horse,” which is a kind of stand for the suit you’ll wear the next day. @dgar I love the ambiguity of that pronunciation guide! Fond memories of explaining style guides to journos (The producer would make a statement like your pronunciation guide and I'd have to go over as the sound guy and quietly explain the actual pronunciation to them without the producer hearing me.) English REALY IS _HARD_ @crunchysteve @dgar English /spelling/ is hard. English grammar is very easy and forgiving. Reasonably regular plurals, no case changes except personal pronouns, no gender except third person singular pronouns, no "formal" and "informal" differences in verbs... @BunRab @crunchysteve @dgar of course I suppose it doesn't help all the things native speakers say "wrong" (due to regional dialects, etc). A coworker of mine in Hungary asked if she was hearing me correctly because it seemed to her i didn't ever say "Yes" ...she didn't hear the s...Then I realized I say "yep" (or yup) 99.9% of the time 🙂. Welp, gotta go @crunchysteve @dgar my workmate saying words he has only read makes this clear heh. He luckily loves learning the correct way when we work out what he means :bloblaugh: the dessert is pronounced "pavlova" but the dancer is pronounced "pavlova" and i can never remember which is which @dgar ah, found a few nice ones: https://mastodon.social/@jensclasen/109370194094507737 https://mastodon.social/@jensclasen/109874846294533766 or the classic: in the morning: der weizen (the wheat), das korn (the grain or the front iron sight). in the evening: das weizen (kind of beer mostly drunk in the south), der korn (a ryhe spirit) @dgar Also, "bow" is pronounced like "sow," whereas "bow" is pronounced like "sow."  @Rachel_Thorn @dgar it's only confusing because "unionized" isn't pronounced like "unionized"    @dgar  @dgar Well, I recall when we were in school, dgar, while hyperzonk had had "had," had had "had had"; "had had" had had the approval of our teacher.   @dgar I don't envy transcription and term extraction software, which needs to understand that reading (a book) is really a very different concept to Reading, a town in Berkshire. Reading a boring book about training is possible on the train to Reading to see the tunnel boring. |
@dgar So then, how do I read "read"? Like red red? Or reed red?
Also, potato.