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Paul Taylor - #Franglais - Bilingual stand-up comedy
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War of words as Nigerian English recognised by Oxford English Dictionary
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"Knull is Coming" - Marvel missing the fact that fantasy names can be words in other languages
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How should I refer to you? | Review of “What's Your Pronoun?”, by Dennis Baron
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I asked 64,182 people about “Jingle Bells, Batman Smells”. Here's what I found out
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How a climate crisis helped shape Norse mythology – a group of archaeologists, linguists and other experts have teamed up to analyse the inscriptions of the Rök Stone
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How do you pronounce "antifa"?
With all the news about President Trump declaring "antifa" a domestic terror organisation, I heard a few local newsreaders saying this word on television. And their pronunciation of this word...
With all the news about President Trump declaring "antifa" a domestic terror organisation, I heard a few local newsreaders saying this word on television. And their pronunciation of this word surprised me.
I've been mentally pronouncing this word as "AN-ti-fa", with the emphasis on the first syllable and a short vowel sound in the second syllable.
They pronounced it as "an-TEE-fa", with the emphasis on the second syllable, with a long vowel sound in that syllable.
My pronunciation is influenced by knowing that "antifa" is short for "anti-fascist". I don't know of any word with the prefix "anti-" where the second syllable is emphasised and the "i" sound is lengthened. Usually, the emphasis in "anti-" words is placed on the first syllable: "AN-ti-bac-TE-ri-al"; "AN-ti-TE-rro-rism"; "AN-ti-gen"; "AN-ti-bo-dy". So, I naturally emphasised the first syllable in "antifa": "AN-ti-fah".
When I heard the newsreaders saying "an-TEE-fa", it makes the word sound like an imported word/name from Spanish or Portuguese or Italian.
Is there a common pronunciation for this word? How do you pronounce it?
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Ə: The most common vowel sound in English
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Gustavo Cerati - Pulsar (1993)
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What was your "oh, they wanted more than coffee!" moment?
In an episode of the TV show Seinfeld, a woman invites George Costanza for a cup of coffee in her apartment after a date. George rejects the offer, saying if he drank coffee that late he would...
In an episode of the TV show Seinfeld, a woman invites George Costanza for a cup of coffee in her apartment after a date. George rejects the offer, saying if he drank coffee that late he would stay up all night. The woman leaves the car visibly underwhelmed. After a second, George realizes "coffee" meant "sex" and he just lost a great opportunity.
Have you ever had a moment like that (not necessarily about romance), in which a silly misunderstanding led to the loss of an opportunity?
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2020 Nerd Parade in Gothenburg will be digital, want to spread the word around the world
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Foreign nationals getting Corona payment from the US state
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Children growing up after this crisis will use far more oral language after it ends
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Abso-bloody-lutely: Expletive infixation
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500-year-old manuscript contains earliest known use of the “F-word”
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Kurt Rosenwinkel - Casio Vanguard (2017)
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Translating the cyberpunk future
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Genuinely unnerving anime
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Alligatoah - Willst Du [Mit Mir Drogen Nehmen?] (Wanna [Do Drugs With Me?]) (2013)
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Lau Noah - La Belleza (Apartment Sessions) (2020)
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How Bernie Sanders answers a question
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Brazilian comedian makes fun of the president Jair Bolsonaro at Rio de Janeiro's Carnival
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Garbage language: Why do corporations speak the way they do?
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How I learned french in twelve months
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The term ‘oriental’ is outdated, but is it racist?
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A history of Simlish, the language that defined The Sims
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Appalachian English
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United Nations guidelines for gender-inclusive language in English
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Swearing in the Woods
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The History of English Podcast
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An attempt to name a child after the Devil has won no sympathy from Iceland's official naming committee
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The English Wikipedia has reached 6,000,000 articles
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A showdown is looming between Spain’s conservative language academy and its newly elected socialist government over proposals to rewrite the nation’s constitution using gender-neutral language
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The plant ecology of the Los Angeles River
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Sámi are the only officially recognised indigenous people in the EU and some of their languages are on the brink of extinction
12 votes -
Tae Kim's guide to learning Japanese
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Sweden's Rök runestone reveals inscriptions were as much about climate change fears as they were the history of ancient battles
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Mad Show Boys - Ja Nie Khodíl Na Karaté (I Didn't Go To The Karate Class) (2011)
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What languages do you speak?
I'm always curious to see what languages people speak, especially given that most communication on sites like Tildes happens in English and as such it doesn't always come up. At one point, I was...
I'm always curious to see what languages people speak, especially given that most communication on sites like Tildes happens in English and as such it doesn't always come up.
At one point, I was pretty fluent in Spanish, but it's been about 4ish years since I've used it with any frequency and as such I am very rusty when speaking. I can still read and write it pretty well however. The big thing is that I have trouble these days recalling vocab I knew like the back of my hand... I should read more to stay sharp.
I also took some French in college and can read it at a beginner-intermediate level, basically enough to understand threads on not super complex topics. I can write too, but require a dictionary for anything remotely complex. Speaking I'm shit however - despite having great teachers I always had a tough time with pronunciation.
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Gwoyeu Romatzyh
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Why I'm possessive about apostrophes
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Freddie Gibbs And Madlib: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert (2019)
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Megan Thee Stallion: NPR Tiny Desk Fest (Extended Concert Series) (2019)
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Merriam-Webster singles out nonbinary 'they' for word of the year honors
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Merriam-Webster's Time Traveler: Words by year of appearance
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Spirit scripts: Japan’s mysterious outcast alphabets
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A dialect dissection of Britney Spears
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Translation and the family of things - A young writer discovers her grandmother’s literary secret
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Oslo's city council wants the Norwegian capital to have an official name in Sámi
4 votes