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  1. Rarity Rarity

    pfft, Norsk for ¨underwear¨ is ¨undertøy¨

    Friday, 18-Nov-16 22:51:44 UTC from web
    1. awlxaĺan awlxaĺan

      @rarity knowing their alphabet after a fashion... gotta wonder how that's pronounced.

      Friday, 18-Nov-16 22:53:50 UTC from web
      1. Rarity Rarity

        @awl if i were to spell it phonetically for english, it'd be like... oonder tuuy? I'm trying to learn the language, and their extra vowels are honestly one of the harder parts

        Friday, 18-Nov-16 22:55:49 UTC from web
        1. awlxaĺan awlxaĺan

          @rarity i presume like Swedish they have a vowel degradation. That's fun. # has that too.

          Friday, 18-Nov-16 22:56:50 UTC from web
          1. Rarity Rarity

            @awl does that mean the meaning of the word changes with the tone? I've not heard the term ¨vowel degredation¨before

            Friday, 18-Nov-16 22:58:15 UTC from web
            1. awlxaĺan awlxaĺan

              @rarity oh. That's just a fancy way of saying a vowel sound changes as to whether or not it's stressed or otherwise "full"

              Friday, 18-Nov-16 23:04:10 UTC from web
              1. Rarity Rarity

                @awl I'm noticing that a lot of letters become less important to pronounce fully depending on how the sentence is, at least for the TTS system this learning program uses. so maybe?

                Friday, 18-Nov-16 23:05:55 UTC from web
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                mcscx mcscx

                @awl like Russian unstressed O becomes "ah"?  @rarity

                Friday, 18-Nov-16 23:31:23 UTC from quitter.se
                1. awlxaĺan awlxaĺan

                  @mcscx yee Russian is like that too. Whoever says it's phonetic is simplifying too much.

                  Friday, 18-Nov-16 23:32:16 UTC from web
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          clackemovedtoheldscalla clackemovedtoheldscalla

          @rarity @awl The closest thing English has to an "ø" is the "u" in "hurt", the "i" in "flirt", the first "e" in "fervent".

          Saturday, 19-Nov-16 02:36:19 UTC from quitter.se
          1. awlxaĺan awlxaĺan

            @clacke figured that. That's the sound related to the IPA character.

            Saturday, 19-Nov-16 20:26:35 UTC from web
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              clackemovedtoheldscalla clackemovedtoheldscalla

              @awl Yeah.

              Monday, 21-Nov-16 09:56:56 UTC from quitter.se
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            xrevan86 xrevan86

            @clacke Kind of like Russian 'ё'?

            Monday, 21-Nov-16 19:22:21 UTC from loadaverage.org
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      dokidoki dokidoki

      @raritysounds like it evolved from 'trag', meaning 'wear' or 'to wear'

      Friday, 18-Nov-16 23:38:47 UTC from gs.smuglo.li
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        clackemovedtoheldscalla clackemovedtoheldscalla

        @dokidoki @rarity No, "tøy" meaning "clothes" or "fabric" comes from an older word meaning generally "stuff", "possessions" or "tools".

        Saturday, 19-Nov-16 02:42:19 UTC from quitter.se
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          dokidoki dokidoki

          @clacke @rarity Ah, thank you.

          Saturday, 19-Nov-16 03:01:28 UTC from gs.smuglo.li
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      clackemovedtoheldscalla clackemovedtoheldscalla

      @rarity Come to think of it, the Scandy "u" is represented in the famous Canadian "about", which would be something like "øbøut". :-)

      Saturday, 19-Nov-16 02:38:22 UTC from quitter.se