Comment on How do you pronounce "centaur" and why?
nesc@lemmy.cafe 5 days agoThat’s like the most correct one if there even could be a ‘correct’ way to pronounce a word of foreign origin in most languages.
Comment on How do you pronounce "centaur" and why?
nesc@lemmy.cafe 5 days agoThat’s like the most correct one if there even could be a ‘correct’ way to pronounce a word of foreign origin in most languages.
futatorius@lemm.ee 4 days ago
In English, it’s a matter of honor to mangle foreign loan words, unless you’re the kind of twit who pedantically pronounces foreign words as though you’re not speaking English, but the language of origin. That’s most common with French loanwords, since French was once considered higher-prestige than English. But I’ve even heard people attempting to pronounce Arabic words like that, despite having no idea of Arabic phonology or case inflection, with ridiculous results.