Chainweasel@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoDo you pronounce "Data" as "Day-ta" or "Dah-ta"?message-squaremessage-square111fedilinkarrow-up1137arrow-down15
arrow-up1132arrow-down1message-squareDo you pronounce "Data" as "Day-ta" or "Dah-ta"?Chainweasel@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square111fedilink
minus-square1rre@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·edit-21 day agoNo it’s not… it’s purely emphasis/stress via vowel reduction in English? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_and_vowel_reduction_in_English
minus-squareuntorquer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-28 minutes agoPlease, i don’t want to be self aware of my accent in my first language. Also the two pronunciations of “the” noted above are different mouth shapes. “Uh” un butt versus “ee” in jeep.
minus-squareLvxferre@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-223 hours agoIt’s both things, and subjected to wide variation: - Stressed Unstressed Prevocalic /ði:/ /ði/, /ðɪ/, /ð/ Preconsonantal /ði:/, /ðʌ/ /ðə/ Source for those pronunciations, Wiktionary. To complicate it further some varieties merge /ʌ/ and /ə/, or /ɪ/ and /ə/. And I’m not even taking into account varieties using a different consonant, /t θ d f v/.
No it’s not… it’s purely emphasis/stress via vowel reduction in English?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_and_vowel_reduction_in_English
Please, i don’t want to be self aware of my accent in my first language.
Also the two pronunciations of “the” noted above are different mouth shapes. “Uh” un butt versus “ee” in jeep.
It’s both things, and subjected to wide variation:
Source for those pronunciations, Wiktionary.
To complicate it further some varieties merge /ʌ/ and /ə/, or /ɪ/ and /ə/. And I’m not even taking into account varieties using a different consonant, /t θ d f v/.