Comment on The word "phonetic" is not spelled phonetically.

MudMan@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• livus@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is why the IPA is useful.

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  • teft@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Kind of. The IPA doesn’t show weak forms so non-native speakers can be confused by them if they only ever learned the dictionary way of pronouncing a word.

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    • livus@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ah that's interesting, I didn't know that.

      Still, the IPA is really helpful when trying to discuss pronunciation with someone who has a very different accent to ourselves.

      As a New Zealander I find some US phonetic spellings baffling.

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  • AffineConnection@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    IPA is also useful for cleaning and drinking.

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• Zerlyna@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Phonetically means the way it sounds which would be “fonetikalee”

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  • breakingcups@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So pronounced phone-tick?

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    • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Three syllables, so it would be fo-ne-tik.

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  • aliceblossom@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is not correct. English is simply not phonetic and therefore it’s impossible to spell any English word phonetically.

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  • AffineConnection@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    funneddic

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    • livus@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That's transposing it how we sound to them, though.

      If the above were pronounced in a baseline kiwi accent the U would just get deeper. The vowel shift goes the other way if I'm to recreate their pronunciation using my own accent:

      Fer ned ik (US)

      Föe net eck (UK)

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  • livus@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Foe net ick.

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