Opinion poll: correct pronunciation of 'Piracetam' and 'Nootropic'?
#31
Posted 04 February 2013 - 10:01 PM
#32
Posted 04 February 2013 - 10:14 PM
Now if we can just convince English language experts to adopt and somehow successfully encourage such a system in our language.
Edited by LBGSHI, 04 February 2013 - 10:14 PM.
#33
Posted 05 February 2013 - 12:00 AM
our language is one of the unfortunate ones in which almost every word is subject to mispronunciation
Spanish, Russian (German?), and many other languages are almost entirely composed of words which can only be pronounced one way...what a blessing that must be.
This is very true, but the reason that English is so flexible and has such a huge vocabulary (the full Oxford English dictionary goes into 20 volumes) is because it accepts words from lots of other languages, very often from immigrants that have introduced words from their language into English. If you accept words from everywhere, you are not going to get a consistent phonetic pronunciation scheme, unfortunately.
#34
Posted 05 February 2013 - 02:11 AM
#35
Posted 05 February 2013 - 02:43 AM
Thats why if you go on the Paris Metro, you will find the logic of the station functional layout is identical in all Metro stations; it is a preconceived system (so if you know how to navigate through one Metro station, you know how to navigate them all); but the London Underground has every station operating under a different functional layout, so you tend to need to know the intricacies and quirks of the functional layout of each station (and each time you go to a new station on the Underground, your knowledge of other stations does not help you navigate this new one).
#36
Posted 05 February 2013 - 08:58 AM
That would mean almost every word is a lean word which is unlikely, in the few languages I know there is an at least somehwat foolproof logic how to pronounce a word, of course its there in english too but its less logical.If you accept words from everywhere, you are not going to get a consistent phonetic pronunciation scheme, unfortunately.
Im not sure about this example but the word "night" in which the g does nothing was spoken in a way where the g was spoken a few centuries ago, so that would mean the english language changed a lot.
#37
Posted 19 February 2013 - 10:29 PM
I sure say it differently lol
#38
Posted 13 December 2013 - 03:48 AM
#39
Posted 13 December 2013 - 07:51 AM
Hmm, wih nootropic though Im not so sure. My brother prounces the - opic part like the "op" in SCOPE or HOPE, I pronounce it more like - optic.
Wow, talking about scopes and optics.. I have been playing too much CoD
Edited by katuskoti, 13 December 2013 - 07:55 AM.
#40
Posted 13 December 2013 - 08:07 AM
Edited by NZT-49, 13 December 2013 - 08:09 AM.
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