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Help[Opinions] Re: The American softening of T's
in reply to a message by LuzDeTuVida
I haven't really considered things like that because I guess they don't bother me. But it's something people would have to accept. Like you can't name your daughter Genevieve and go around expecting people to pronounce it zhawn-VYEV. The only name I can think of that I prefer pronounced in another language but English is Eugenie. I think it sounds nicest in French.
Kind of OT, but if you think changing a t to a d in the middle of a word is bad, don't come here. We like to just omit that sound altogether. Like "shut-up" becomes "shu'up". Or "I'm going to" is "I-munna." Or "Grand Rapids" is "GranRapids." I'm sure this would apply to a name too. Maybe not Etta. But something. Colton. Col'on. :)
Kind of OT, but if you think changing a t to a d in the middle of a word is bad, don't come here. We like to just omit that sound altogether. Like "shut-up" becomes "shu'up". Or "I'm going to" is "I-munna." Or "Grand Rapids" is "GranRapids." I'm sure this would apply to a name too. Maybe not Etta. But something. Colton. Col'on. :)
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Same for in the South
We all talk like we have marbles in our mouths and couldn't say things if we tried, and the t to d conversion is even more common. Though the Colton example would probably be said more like COHT-in with the L dropped and the T exaggerated.
It once took me half and hour to figure out that this woman was calling her children Carter and Sawyer because she said CAHD-uh and SUH-yuh.
We all talk like we have marbles in our mouths and couldn't say things if we tried, and the t to d conversion is even more common. Though the Colton example would probably be said more like COHT-in with the L dropped and the T exaggerated.
It once took me half and hour to figure out that this woman was calling her children Carter and Sawyer because she said CAHD-uh and SUH-yuh.
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Haha
The Carter and Sawyer thing made me laugh.
Reminds me of one time when I was watching Family Feud with a family from down South, and one lady said a word that sounded like AHL (that's the best way I can type it) for an answer. And John O'Hurley looked really confused and had to ask her to repeat it a few times before everyone figured out that she was saying owl. :)
The Carter and Sawyer thing made me laugh.
Reminds me of one time when I was watching Family Feud with a family from down South, and one lady said a word that sounded like AHL (that's the best way I can type it) for an answer. And John O'Hurley looked really confused and had to ask her to repeat it a few times before everyone figured out that she was saying owl. :)
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