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minus-squareTabbsTheBat (they/them)@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·3 months agoOr you can look up how to pronounce it. The IPA and often audio pronunciations aren’t that hard to find, unless you speak a more obscure language
minus-squareBeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·3 months agoSo many of the audio pronunciations are computer generated, I used to like IPA but then I stopped drinking so it doesn’t really help any more.
minus-squareTabbsTheBat (they/them)@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months agoInternational phonetic alphabet :3… though trying to pronounce some of the sounds in it does make you want the other kind of IPA lol
minus-squareDozzi92@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·3 months agoI just wouldn’t think to look up a word I assumed I was pronouncing correctly. I’m pretty good at this reading thing, and so I apply the standards, but words like epitome and ethereal are just here to fuck with us.
minus-squareTabbsTheBat (they/them)@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-23 months agoTbf a call line wouldn’t help you in that case either, which is the premise of this. You wouldn’t call about words you assume you know
Or you can look up how to pronounce it. The IPA and often audio pronunciations aren’t that hard to find, unless you speak a more obscure language
So many of the audio pronunciations are computer generated, I used to like IPA but then I stopped drinking so it doesn’t really help any more.
International phonetic alphabet :3… though trying to pronounce some of the sounds in it does make you want the other kind of IPA lol
I just wouldn’t think to look up a word I assumed I was pronouncing correctly. I’m pretty good at this reading thing, and so I apply the standards, but words like epitome and ethereal are just here to fuck with us.
Tbf a call line wouldn’t help you in that case either, which is the premise of this. You wouldn’t call about words you assume you know