gobble_ghoul [he/him]

The thing that gets me when I try to explain Spanish pronunciation to English speakers is that when I tell them the vowels are always pronounced the same way, it goes in one ear and out the other. You are literally making it harder on yourself by applying English spelling rules to it than if you just memorized 5(!) vowel sounds.

If it ever happens in the future, make sure to hit them with a “that’s not how it’s said in Catalan”.

The Spanish dialect closest to them does the “lisping”, in fairness. Historically inaccurate to call it a lisp, tho, unless you count English TH as a lisp as well.

David J. Peterson has talked about it a couple of times. Sometimes he’s allowed to coach people on pronunciation and other times he’s not. Sometimes in the edit they will change their mind about what they want the translation of a line to be after filming or splice together different lines, so even though they had him go through the effort of making a conlang and the dialogue, they fuck it all up after the fact by not making sure it matches what the final product says.

Side note, I always thought it was funny that they had the Dothraki repeating “armor” with two tapped /r/ sounds after hearing someone with an accent that doesn’t pronounce /r/ there say it. They apparently had understanding of English writing despite not speaking it.

More people need to learn how to make a naming language so they don’t have to worry about making a full-blown conlang.

Every time I tried to look it up later I was unable to find it. I think it was taken down.

Just a little quibble with your point about Tibetan writing - a better comparison would be Modern English written as it was during the Old English period. So like “lord” might be written as “hlafweard”, for example, because it is a direct descendent of that word put through hundreds of years of pronunciation change. English doesn’t come from Latin and “finally” doesn’t come from “ad ultimum”, whereas Tibetan does come from Old Tibetan, the language the script was originally fairly adequately adapted to.

It’s decent for a few hours of fun. Not super long and I wish that they had worked in a lot more interesting environmental and Pokemon interactions for the player to trigger, but I enjoyed it. Hopefully we don’t have to wait 20 years for the next one and hopefully it’s more ambitious if and when it does come out.

The snake and lizard branch is wrong. I care very much about the accuracy of memes, and I have to point out that many lizards are more closely related to snakes than they are to other lizards.

stupid asshole

It’s actually so he can listen to show tunes.

I think that people will look back on Elon Musk as an utter charlatan and a disaster, and hopefully it will provide people with insight into how the US economy actually functions, and to me that’s a pretty exciting prospect.

Actually Star Trek said he’s still beloved

Even with the phonemes of any two given language varieties that are considered to be “the same sound”, there are going to be differences in what the average pronunciation is, so I assume that’s a lot of what’s going on here. The other thing is that English and Chinese have a lot of phonemes that barely or don’t at all overlap in possible pronunciations, so the algorithm is picking the closest match.

Can I kill one person 8 billion times instead?

English cows: [myː]

Australian cows: [məːʉ]

American cows: [mʊu]

Neat. That’s called the celery-salary merger. For me “smell” has the same vowel as “bet” and “Al” has the same vowel as “bat”, so they’re similar but distinct.

Do “smell” and “Al” rhyme for you?

how does one act like they have composted

The Fast and Furious thing is not a bit, btw. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal