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submitted 8 months ago by ahdok@ttrpg.network to c/rpgmemes@ttrpg.network

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Are you my aunt? That's exactly how she says geese. Her husband says geese as "gays" with a sibilant s rather than the hard s.

[–] ornery_chemist@mander.xyz 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

.... how do you mean? S's are sibilants in every variation I know if not silent like in French.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm three decades away from my last class, but I thought that the ess sound than an s makes is called a sibilant, where the z sound it makes isn't.

Most people using the word "gays" will have it sound like gayz, or the word gaze. His is that sibilant s like in hissing

[–] ornery_chemist@mander.xyz 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You make a good point about the voicing distinction that I was unsure of, so I looked it up. According to clearly the most authoritative source on the internet, [s] and [z] are both "hissing" sibilants.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

See? That's what getting old does to you, you forget shit left and right, or remember it wrong. I always recommend not getting old, just stop at 40.

Seriously though, thanks for the correction.