French would be like /ʒragon/ and English would be /dʒragon/
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isthingoneventhis@lemmy.world 7 months agoPretend like you’re french: j’ragon. It’s the second G in garage or however you would say au jou sauce.
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 7 months ago
isthingoneventhis@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It was more like “french” how Americans think french is, sadly not actual french. It was to overemphasize the starting sound, since sometimes it’s hard to isolate sounds and move them around like that (mouth position wise) when you don’t commonly have other words that start with those sounds.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 7 months ago
In most Americans accents I think “Dragon” and “Jragon” would be indistinguishable.
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I was so fucking confused until I tried saying it out loud. I’m so startled and impressed
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 7 months ago
Yeah if I slow down and pronounce it with intention, they’re different. In normal speech though, it’s basically “jragon”
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I grew up in the Appalachian and it isn’t the same in my accent.
isthingoneventhis@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Absolutely not. Am American, so I’m gonna go on a limb and assume most of my friends would also probably pronounce it similarly.
The way you say Jra-gon and Dra-gon is completely different in most accents on the West coast. I’m very confident in that.
I think the Midwest would probably say it pretty samsues because they’re not emphasizing the first letter: jRa-gun / dRa-gun or jra-Gn / dra-Gn. Probably gets lost in the sauce a little.
Idk about East Coast, but tbh it probably is closer to Midwesterners dropping consonants and shit so who knows.
ARxtwo@lemmy.one 7 months ago
West-coaster here. They’re definitely two completely different pronunciations.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 7 months ago
I’m a Midwesterner living on the east coast so that’s entirely possible.