I was BAFFLED to learn at 35 that “awry” does not rhyme with “glory”.
Comment on xkcd #2907: Schwa
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months agoAs a native English speaker and Spanish learner, consistent vowel pronunciation is so incredible. 🥺 Just looking at a word and knowing how to pronounce it… amazing stuff. Kind of wild that in some languages you don’t have the ‘curse of the self educated’ (randomly mispronouncing words you’ve only read, not heard spoken).
watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
WoahWoah@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah that blew my mind about Spanish. I was like, “WHAT DO YOU MEAN ALL THESE VOWELS ALWAYS HAVE THE SAME SOUND??? YOU ARE ALLOWED TO DO THAT!??”
Then I started trying to learn to conjugate verbs and I was like ohhhhh, ok, so fuck me.