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You dont pronounce smuk and slemazel, do you?I pronounce them /'ʃmʌk/ and /ʃlɪ'mɑzəl/. (See the chart for the mapping of IPA to English dialect sounds for a key to my pronunciation.)
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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They do,they do. You dont pronounce smuk and slemazel, do you? No, they don't. Whether you say /smʌk/ or /ʃmʌk/, the word begins with 2 consonants either way.
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This is a standard expletive in Hindi (and possibly other Indo-Aryan languages). Hindi चोदना codanā "to have sexual intercourse with (of a man)"
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No, they don't. Whether you say /smʌk/ or /ʃmʌk/, the word begins with 2 consonants either way.
. Schm. Don't know what you call these, we call all four of them consonants.
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they appear to be talking sounds, just like they do when they talk about multiple vowels strung together as one dipthongish vowel.
-joe (but I know what I don't know) friday
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Don't know what you call these, we call all four of them consonants.
goofy is making a distinction between the actual sounds (phonemes) of English and their written representation. Some languages go for a one-to-correspondence between these two things, and others go for a many-to-one or one-to-many.
For example, the single sound represented by the IPA symbol /ʃ/ is normally written in English as {sh} and in German as {sch}, but Czech gets away with a single letter {š}. IPA ʒ can be a single symbol as in English garage or French je 'I', but two in Hungarian {zs]as in rozsa 'rose'. OTOH, IPA /ju/, which are two sounds, is a single letter in English human.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Schl.Schm. Don't know what you call these, we call all four of them consonants. So you're complaining about the spelling. So spell them shl and shm - problem solved.
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This is a standard expletive in Hindi (and possibly other Indo-Aryan languages). Hindi चोदना codanā "to have sexual intercourse with (of a man)" Interesting. It deals with feces and excrement among the young people I know. Different strokes for different folks.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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No complaints at all; its just slightly growing over my head.
Anyway @stuwm : I think the cleverest thing on earth is (to know what you don't know). How do you do that?
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just like in real estate, it's all about location - hanging around with linguists, I know that I don't know beans about linguistics.
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