Chainweasel@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoDo you pronounce "Data" as "Day-ta" or "Dah-ta"?message-squaremessage-square113linkfedilinkarrow-up1157arrow-down111
arrow-up1146arrow-down1message-squareDo you pronounce "Data" as "Day-ta" or "Dah-ta"?Chainweasel@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square113linkfedilink
minus-square1rre@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down3·2 years 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
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minus-squareKazumara@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 years agoOhh nice, that table helps. I felt like something was off about people sometimes using more /ði:/ than what I was taught!
minus-squareuntorquer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years 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-squareLimfjorden@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoI’m just going off what I learned in school in Denmark. According to lvxferre@mander.xyz it seems there is a lot more variation than I thought.
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
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Ohh nice, that table helps. I felt like something was off about people sometimes using more /ði:/ than what I was taught!
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.
I’m just going off what I learned in school in Denmark. According to lvxferre@mander.xyz it seems there is a lot more variation than I thought.