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TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

A1 is coming for our jobs. It's an evil cable of people.

[–] teft@piefed.social 6 points 4 days ago (3 children)

This joke doesn't work for a normal language like spanish that has regular orthography, only languages like english or french that have broken spelling.

Klingonese is read the way it's spoken so it also wouldn't suffer from this problem.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (10 children)

a normal language like spanish that has regular orthography

que necesitas para entender que esto es algo falso? Un Casco?

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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Spanish is one of the best languages for having the spelling match the pronunciation, but it's not perfect. First of all, you can't spell something just based on hearing it because a /k/ sound can be a 'c' or a 'k', and a /s/ can be an 's' or a 'c'. It also has silent letters like 'h'. Going the other way, seeing the spelling of Mexico, Xalapa, Oaxaca, etc. would lead someone who didn't know to try to pronounce them with a /ks/ sound, but they're really pronounced as if they were spelled Mejico, Jalapa and Oajaca. Then, there are loan words like "psicologia" where the "p" is retained from the original language, but not pronounced in Spanish.

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[–] ghostlychonk@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (5 children)

I still don't know the actual pronunciation of macabre.

[–] teft@piefed.social 5 points 4 days ago

There are three accepted ways of saying it:

Ma-cah-bruh

Ma-cahb

Ma-cahb-err

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Well if you can read IPA, it's something like /məˈkɑːbrə/

Although I'd argue the ə can be silent.

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[–] dvlsg@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Audiobooks do the reverse.

"Wait, that's how you spell that??"

I guess it's usually with names, though.

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[–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Or read it in a shitpost somewhere

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[–] chunes@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Homage took me a while

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