Entries tagged 'pronunciation'

• Desereted
  One of the things specific to LDS culture and one of the things I forgot about by the time I started doing linguistic studies was an attempt duri...


• People are Deaf
  While I didnt know that it was a Yamaha product until today Ive known about Vocaloidfor a l...


• Crash Review
  I started going through the Pimsleur course today for Japanese. Since I didnt know what they would cover in the course I decided to just start fro...


• Direct Import from Poland
  I was driving down the street yesterday heading to the west end of the valley and on the side of the street there was a scrolling marquee. I wasn...


• Pronounced
  English is a rather strange language. It is filled with many different language influences and it is full of conflicting grammatical rules. It is ...


• Déjà Vowel
  I thought I had talked about this once before but apparently I havent. Also it seems Google isnt indexing anything for the search box Ill loo...


• Constant/Consonant
  The other day in work a coworker was making a joke about another one not a derogatory joke mind you a joke that she often makes about herself....


• Caution: English Construction Next 5 Miles
  At my work theres a guy who often mispronounces the names of things. Usually its nothing to bother with but occasionally some unusual words are cr...


• Pronunciation Sandwich
  GameTrailers has been doing retrospectives of the Final Fantasy series over the last month or so from t...


• Emphasis Added
  As a general rule English follows a pattern of emphasizing every other syllable. Occasionally one and two syllable words in succession will swap t...