Chainweasel@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoDo you pronounce "Data" as "Day-ta" or "Dah-ta"?message-squaremessage-square114fedilinkarrow-up1142arrow-down15
arrow-up1137arrow-down1message-squareDo you pronounce "Data" as "Day-ta" or "Dah-ta"?Chainweasel@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square114fedilink
minus-square1rre@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down2·edit-21 day agoNo it’s not… it’s purely emphasis/stress via vowel reduction in English? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_and_vowel_reduction_in_English
minus-squareLimfjorden@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 hour agoI’m just going off what I learned in school in Denmark. According to [email protected] it seems there is a lot more variation than I thought.
minus-squareuntorquer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-27 hours agoPlease, i don’t want to be self aware of my accent in my first language. Also the two pronunciations of “the” noted above are different mouth shapes. “Uh” un butt versus “ee” in jeep.
minus-squareLvxferre@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·edit-21 day agoIt’s both things, and subjected to wide variation: - Stressed Unstressed Prevocalic /ði:/ /ði/, /ðɪ/, /ð/ Preconsonantal /ði:/, /ðʌ/ /ðə/ Source for those pronunciations, Wiktionary. To complicate it further some varieties merge /ʌ/ and /ə/, or /ɪ/ and /ə/. And I’m not even taking into account varieties using a different consonant, /t θ d f v/.
minus-squareKazumara@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 hours agoOhh nice, that table helps. I felt like something was off about people sometimes using more /ði:/ than what I was taught!
No it’s not… it’s purely emphasis/stress via vowel reduction in English?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_and_vowel_reduction_in_English
I’m just going off what I learned in school in Denmark. According to [email protected] it seems there is a lot more variation than I thought.
Please, i don’t want to be self aware of my accent in my first language.
Also the two pronunciations of “the” noted above are different mouth shapes. “Uh” un butt versus “ee” in jeep.
It’s both things, and subjected to wide variation:
Source for those pronunciations, Wiktionary.
To complicate it further some varieties merge /ʌ/ and /ə/, or /ɪ/ and /ə/. And I’m not even taking into account varieties using a different consonant, /t θ d f v/.
Ohh nice, that table helps. I felt like something was off about people sometimes using more /ði:/ than what I was taught!