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Phonemes (was Apple told to warn against charging phone inbath after man's electrocution)
On Mon, 08 May 2017 19:15:48 +0100, PAS wrote:
On 5/4/2017 3:12 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 20:57:12 +0100, Char Jackson wrote: On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 15:40:08 -0400, Wolf K wrote: There are between 37 and 44 phonemes in English, depending on which dialects you speak (and how the phonemes are counted). A phoneme is a sound that contrasts with another to make a different word, eg bull/pull, bull/ball/bell/bale/etc. The main difference between dialects is the number of vowels. Eg, in "John went to marry merry Mary", I say three different vowels in those last three words, while an American will likely use the same vowel for all. I am what you called American and those three words sound identical to me. ;-) How the **** do you guys communicate with each other with so few vowel sounds? If all the words sound the same.... They don't all sound the same, maybe to him it does but they don't to most of us. They each have a distinctive sound. What makes me really laugh is you say "zee" for the letter Z. Sounds like a child's name for it. As in "Whoopee!" etc. It helps to speak two or more languages. I'm not fluent in any other language, but I speak a small bit of German, Spanish, and Tagalog. Never even heard of Tagalog. Is it from Star Trek or something? -- Any god who requires worship is not worth being worshipped. |
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