#pronouncing other languages

[pikolswonderland]

🏳️‍⚧️ THIS IS A PSA 🏳️‍⚧️

ATTENTION ALL TRANS PEOPLE ON THIS SITE!!

I’d like to formally inform y’all on behalf of every Swedish person in existence that “Blåhaj” is meant to be pronounced as “Bloo-high” with my source being my part-Swedish dad who laughed in my face and had to correct my pronunciation when I asked for the plushie. Save yourself the embarrassment folks and spread the word.

THANK YOU AND HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY

[koheletgirl]

HELLO if you speak anything other than english would you please tell me in the tags what rice is called in that language??

[anglerflsh]

les mis can be a commedy. To me.

[jadagul]

Ways of inventing fantasy words, ranked

Inspired by my Final Fantasy XII playthrough.

A: Resonant historical, literary, or mythological reference. "Ifrit", "Leviathan"

A-: Reference obscure enough that you might not get it and the writers maybe didn't either. "Shiva", "Belias".

B+: reasonably transparent English compound. "airship", "skystone", "time battlemage".

B: Non-transparent but reasonably guessible English. "black mage", "white mage".

B-: Arbitrary but clear English compound. "red mage", "foebreaker".

C+: Made up but with reasonable English roots and grammatical components. "magicite", "avion", "Westersand".

C: Just totally made up. "chocobo", "jagd", "viera".

C-: Totally made up but wants to convince you it's technical vocabulary that comes from somewhere. "nethicite". (Yeah, to tell the difference between this and a C+ you might have to ask Potter Stewart.)

D: Taking a normal English word and changing the spelling to make it exotic. "magick."

F: Taking a perfectly good real word that already means what you want and changing it because go fuck yourself. "Manufacted".

F-----: pronouncing the "s" in the title "Marquis".

[vinesaucejoelfacts]

𝔉𝔄ℭ𝔗: 𝔍𝔬𝔢𝔩 𝔴𝔞𝔰 𝔟𝔬𝔯𝔫 𝔦𝔫 𝔶𝔢 𝔶𝔢𝔞𝔯 𝔶𝔦𝔯𝔱𝔢𝔢𝔫-𝔥𝔲𝔫𝔡𝔯𝔢𝔡 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔶𝔦𝔯𝔱𝔶-𝔰𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔫, 𝔶𝔲𝔰 𝔰𝔦𝔤𝔫𝔦𝔣𝔶𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔓𝔯𝔬𝔣𝔢𝔰𝔰𝔦𝔬𝔫𝔞𝔩 𝔊𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔯 𝔰𝔱𝔞𝔱𝔲𝔰.

[r-aindr0p]

BAHAHAHHA THE BURR ONE OMG 😂😂 Funilly enough, we use "burro" to say "donkey", but we add an O at the end. Depending on the gender tho, we use an A.

Also! I ate a Gateau before and it's SOOOOO TASTY! One thing I admire about France is their amazing culinary. We also use "gato" to reffer to a very very beautiful person. And, yeah, also uses A or O depending on the gender 😂.

BTW WHY THE FUCK IS IT SO HARD TO SAY SQUIRREL IN FRENCH??? I once spent almost 1h trying to correctly enunciate it, my French friend (curiously called gato) died inside a little bit everytime I botched the word.

Ohh yeah the word is something but the spelling as well lmao like ?? I always pause and think if there's a second U or not when I write it... for some languages it's the first "u" sound that doesn't exist for others it's the "eu" sound or the "r" yeah I see why it's terrible to pronounce... :')

a word I hate to write with similar kind of orthogtaph is "accueillir" (welcome/recieve) "ah-queue-yeer" (once again approximately) but yeah uh why is the u after the e and still pronounced "eu" ??

[heavensickness]

i've heard leonardo da vinci's last name being pronounced as both da vinchi and da vinsi & whenever i use one of them, some asshole always "corrects" me with the other pronounciation. so i'm gonna settle on calling him da vinky like God intended

[mortola]

hey im new to language learning on tumblr but can anyone rec me the best way out of romance languages? like what non-romance lang to start learning if ik or am already working on like spanish french portuguese?

[coquelicoq]

just had the thought "after i exhaust the french fiction, poetry, and textbooks i own, i could read the french dictionary cover to cover" and got, like, GENUINELY excited about it.

[lgbtlunaverse]

Modern au genderqueer nmj but they talk about it in a way that makes them sound transphobic. What he means is "I use any pronouns/honorifics and I don't have a preference" what she says is "Oh I don't care about that stuff. Don't know why people make such a big deal out of it. 🙄"

[mzannthropy]

Youtube randomly recced me this.

[lifeserieswarriors]

wrenbark / rendog

[crttvset]

i didnt have a recent drawing of trish but pretend shes xanax perscription

[cum-roll]

hi ::) whats ur favorite word?

first ordeal, I'm studying linguistics. I know my words, you just hit an awesome nerve

the simplest answer is "Kurwa", because it's a beautiful word and such a useful one at that

however, i cannot use it. I have a speech defect that makes me sound funny when I curse out my friends. I have been told that I sound "cute" when I yell it but like I just called you a slut!!! bitch!!!

I know that it isn't a question about swear words but they are infinitely more interesting to talk about then normal words, so to answer your question - my favourite word is: "jeb"

What is "jeb" you ask - its an onomatopoeia. Simplest translation is "FUCKING SLAM" in all caps, just like that. Surprisingly useful!

Real life example from a conversation I had a week ago:

"I'll be sitting in my room all quiet then JEB kurwa my neighbor shut the door so hard the walls shook and he wasn't even done I'm trying to focus as he goes JEB JEB fucking insane"

Beautiful word!

You know I'm not even done with it! Jeb can be just the core of many, many beautiful words. Basically it's a core word to be used to make a swear word out of a verb. A few examples:

jebać - to fuck

zajebać - to fucking steal/kill/punch

przyjebać - to fucking punch

ojebać - to fucking eat whole

and also other useful words like

zajebiście - fucking awesome

Fun fact! You can do the same things with cores "kurwa" and "pierdolić" snd others so have fun with that

Another fun fact, with slight changes this will ALSO work in other Slavic languages (which is literally my studies rn), like in Czech or Ukrainian I think, and all the others will have some version of that. Definitely "Kurva"

My most favourite non-swear word is probably szczęście because foreigners make funny wide eyes at that

[derpinette]

TBH i kind of am into phonetics in a freak pervert way

[ct-multifandom]

Can you guys rb this or comment with how you pronounce “Goncharov”? I didn’t really think anything of it until one of my friends said it out loud and I was like huh? I think it’s interesting how people can have different pronunciations of a word or name they’ve never heard out loud in their head an not question it. For reference, I’m a native Russian speaker and I’ve always read it like gohn-CHArohv and my US American friend said GAHNCHA-rahv.