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This is material from comments to remarks in an answer by aparente001an answer by aparente001, but it grew too awkward for the comment format there. That answer’s author said it was harder to specify the sound of a foreign word in English than in the other languages they know, Spanish and French and German.
This is material from comments to remarks in an answer by aparente001, but it grew too awkward for the comment format there. That answer’s author said it was harder to specify the sound of a foreign word in English than in the other languages they know, Spanish and French and German.
This is material from comments to remarks in an answer by aparente001, but it grew too awkward for the comment format there. That answer’s author said it was harder to specify the sound of a foreign word in English than in the other languages they know, Spanish and French and German.
I mean, seriously, if instead of talking about Magellan you used the “real”
Portuguese pronunciation [mɐɣ̞ɐˈʎɐ̃jʃ], do you really think people would even know what word you’d just said.? Most would not. It’s the same with the happy French squirrels. We just don’t have those sounds.
I mean, seriously, if instead of talking about Magellan you used the “real”
Portuguese pronunciation [mɐɣ̞ɐˈʎɐ̃jʃ], do you really think people would even know what you’d just said. Most would not. It’s the same with the happy French squirrels. We just don’t have those sounds.
I mean, seriously, if instead of talking about Magellan you used the “real”
Portuguese pronunciation [mɐɣ̞ɐˈʎɐ̃jʃ], do you really think people would even know what word you’d just said? Most would not. It’s the same with the happy French squirrels. We just don’t have those sounds.
