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It's just that English-speakers don't have a productive model of how stress works in Greek words, so when left to their own devices they come up with English-based stress patterns which do not necessarily fit how they are prescriptively supposed to be in Greek words. As for Euripides and Eumenides, the stress is lexicalized for those particular names.Glass Half Baked wrote: ↑Tue Apr 08, 2025 7:55 pm TIL, people in this thread pronounce Euripides "yoo-rip-PIE-deez," and Eumenides "yoo-men-EYE-deez." At least, that's what I am forced to assume by everyone pronouncing octopodes on the third syllable.
So far as I know, English pronunciation of Greek names follows Latin conventions, not Greek. In Ancient Greek, both Euripides and Eumenides were stressed on the penult (Εὐριπίδης, Εὐμενῐ́δες).Travis B. wrote: ↑Tue Apr 08, 2025 9:11 pmIt's just that English-speakers don't have a productive model of how stress works in Greek words, so when left to their own devices they come up with English-based stress patterns which do not necessarily fit how they are prescriptively supposed to be in Greek words. As for Euripides and Eumenides, the stress is lexicalized for those particular names.Glass Half Baked wrote: ↑Tue Apr 08, 2025 7:55 pm TIL, people in this thread pronounce Euripides "yoo-rip-PIE-deez," and Eumenides "yoo-men-EYE-deez." At least, that's what I am forced to assume by everyone pronouncing octopodes on the third syllable.
Nope, I say /jʉˈrip.i.dijz/ and /jʉˈmɛn.i.dijz/. Zompist is right about applying Latin stress rules – for some reason -podes looks like it has a long¹ penult and -pides and -nides looks like they have short penults. You could probably run an experiment on this if you wanted / had the time.Glass Half Baked wrote: ↑Tue Apr 08, 2025 7:55 pm TIL, people in this thread pronounce Euripides "yoo-rip-PIE-deez," and Eumenides "yoo-men-EYE-deez." At least, that's what I am forced to assume by everyone pronouncing octopodes on the third syllable.
Lexical sets are about pnonemes, not phones, so be pedantically all you want, but bullet, put and foot all have FOOTLērisama wrote: ↑Tue Apr 08, 2025 4:46 pmAs Travis said, ⟨put⟩ anď ⟨foot⟩ share the same vowel, but I will pedantically note that ⟨bullet⟩ has an actually back [ʊ], as opposed to a [ɵ] or fronter that is more usual for the FOOT vowel, because /l/s tend to back preceding vowels¹. In German terms, I say ⟨bullet⟩ rather than ⟨büllet⟩, and I'm mostly mentioning it because it is an utter pain in learning German, probably moreso than going the other way.
. As for German, its <ü> is quite front (/y/), much further than most varieties of English have any vowel.You'd be surprised how many ancient concepts pop up on TikTok and Instagram videos (as well as ancient music, i.e. 80s/90s). My kids did not know what a mullet's called in their native Dutch, but the English word no problem (except for the botched pronunciation)
.I don’t know about German, but Parisian French [y] is quite close to my Australian/SA English [ʉ] (which on the vowel chart is distinctly fronted).jal wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 3:40 amLexical sets are about pnonemes, not phones, so be pedantically all you want, but bullet, put and foot all have FOOTLērisama wrote: ↑Tue Apr 08, 2025 4:46 pmAs Travis said, ⟨put⟩ anď ⟨foot⟩ share the same vowel, but I will pedantically note that ⟨bullet⟩ has an actually back [ʊ], as opposed to a [ɵ] or fronter that is more usual for the FOOT vowel, because /l/s tend to back preceding vowels¹. In German terms, I say ⟨bullet⟩ rather than ⟨büllet⟩, and I'm mostly mentioning it because it is an utter pain in learning German, probably moreso than going the other way.
Well, that's why I said "most varieties", as I'm aware there are varieties that have a vowel that's quite front.bradrn wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 3:55 amI don’t know about German, but Parisian French [y] is quite close to my Australian/SA English [ʉ] (which on the vowel chart is distinctly fronted).
Yes, most single ⟨s⟩ between vowels is /z/, excepting recent loanwords. The plural -⟨es⟩ is also /ɪz/. Loser is /lʉwzə/ for me.Raphael wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 5:35 am Unrelated: Do I get this right that there are a few English words where the letter "s" is more pronounced like how the letter "z" would usually be pronounced in English? Like, for instance, the word "loser"? Or have I been pronouncing "loser" wrong all the time?
Thank you!Lērisama wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 6:15 amYes, most single ⟨s⟩ between vowels is /z/, excepting recent loanwords. The plural -⟨es⟩ is also /ɪz/. Loser is /lʉwzə/ for me.Raphael wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 5:35 am Unrelated: Do I get this right that there are a few English words where the letter "s" is more pronounced like how the letter "z" would usually be pronounced in English? Like, for instance, the word "loser"? Or have I been pronouncing "loser" wrong all the time?
Not just ‘a few’ — this is the general rule for intervocalic single ⟨s⟩. I believe it dates back to Old English, which had no voicing contrast in fricatives. Presumably this has been reinforced by a similar rule in French (e.g. rose /ʀoz/, hasard /azaʀ/).Raphael wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 5:35 am Unrelated: Do I get this right that there are a few English words where the letter "s" is more pronounced like how the letter "z" would usually be pronounced in English? Like, for instance, the word "loser"? Or have I been pronouncing "loser" wrong all the time?
Thank you, too!bradrn wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 6:24 amNot just ‘a few’ — this is the general rule for intervocalic single ⟨s⟩. I believe it dates back to Old English, which had no voicing contrast in fricatives. Presumably this has been reinforced by a similar rule in French (e.g. rose /ʀoz/, hasard /azaʀ/).Raphael wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 5:35 am Unrelated: Do I get this right that there are a few English words where the letter "s" is more pronounced like how the letter "z" would usually be pronounced in English? Like, for instance, the word "loser"? Or have I been pronouncing "loser" wrong all the time?
From a quick check on YouTube, Parisian French [y] sounds awfully similar to my native English [y(ː)]; i.e. Parisian French tu has roughly the same vowel as my native too. Conversely, StG [yː] is considerably fronter and more exolabial than my native [y(ː)].bradrn wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 3:55 amI don’t know about German, but Parisian French [y] is quite close to my Australian/SA English [ʉ] (which on the vowel chart is distinctly fronted).jal wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 3:40 amLexical sets are about pnonemes, not phones, so be pedantically all you want, but bullet, put and foot all have FOOTLērisama wrote: ↑Tue Apr 08, 2025 4:46 pmAs Travis said, ⟨put⟩ anď ⟨foot⟩ share the same vowel, but I will pedantically note that ⟨bullet⟩ has an actually back [ʊ], as opposed to a [ɵ] or fronter that is more usual for the FOOT vowel, because /l/s tend to back preceding vowels¹. In German terms, I say ⟨bullet⟩ rather than ⟨büllet⟩, and I'm mostly mentioning it because it is an utter pain in learning German, probably moreso than going the other way.
I distinguish STRUT and FOOT, but not before /l/. It would have never occurred to me that people would pronounce 'mullet' and 'bullet' differently.
Oh, most definitely, all of England and the Commonwealth afaik. For me "zero" is [ˈziɻɐy̯] and "hero" is [ˈhiːɻɐy̯], which you could analyse as /ɪ/ vs. /iː/, although you could also say /ɪ/ vs. /ɪə̯/ (i.e. Australian /i/ vs. /ɪː/).
Do they distinguish /u/ and /U/ too?
I can only thing of one word with /ʊr/, which is "courier", and that's [ˈkʰʊɻəjə], distinct from e.g. "mercurial" [məˈcçjöːɹəjəɫʷ], but I also have a north/thought/force/cure merger, so "mercurial" has the same vowel as "glorious" [ˈgɫʷöːɻəjəs]. The distinction again is very close to being one of length. I'm not sure of the exact value of "ö" but it's a lot closer to schwa than my regular n/th/f/cure [o̝ː].jcb wrote: ↑Sat Apr 19, 2025 12:23 amDo they distinguish /u/ and /U/ too?