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[-] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

don’t have a good answer to OP’s question but i just want to give a shoutout to my fellow IPA literate sickos in this thread fighting the good fight

Death to America

[-] alexandra_kollontai@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago

Hexbear won't understand this coded message: /'dəþ 'tu 'ði æm'εrɪkən 'længwədʒ/

[-] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago

stress markers on one-syllable words

sicko-beaming

Death to America

[-] alexandra_kollontai@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

It means you say them louder hasel-fist

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
[-] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 11 months ago

æ

I have to remind myself not to pronounce /æ/ like Latin “ae”.

Laughing at IPA /æ/ in “American” though, would be hilarious to make this the actual pronunciation

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago

IPA

My brain interprets that as a horrible foreign language so if I want to share a pronunciation for simplicity's sake I use dictionary.com. An example...

Segue Definition & Meaning

SEG-wey

It's not perfect but it's the best site I know.

[-] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

if it's not on my computer keyboard it's a made up sound!

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