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pfft, Norsk for ¨underwear¨ is ¨undertøy¨
Friday, 18-Nov-16 22:51:44 UTC from web-
@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
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@awl does that mean the meaning of the word changes with the tone? I've not heard the term ¨vowel degredation¨before
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@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"
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@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?
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@mcscx yee Russian is like that too. Whoever says it's phonetic is simplifying too much.
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@raritysounds like it evolved from 'trag', meaning 'wear' or 'to wear'
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@rarity Come to think of it, the Scandy "u" is represented in the famous Canadian "about", which would be something like "øbøut". :-)
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@clacke figured that. That's the sound related to the IPA character.
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@awl Yeah.
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@clacke Kind of like Russian 'ё'?
