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How do you pronounce tomato?

Like tomarto 15 23.08%
 
Like tomayto 45 69.23%
 
Other (please explain) 5 7.69%
 
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Teeqoz on 26 April 2016
Ka-pi96 said:
Player2 said:

/təˈmɑːtoʊ/.

Trying to explain how do you pronounce a word with letters in a language that doesn't have a 1:1 correlation between phonemes and letters is nonsense.

But trying to explain it with... wtf even is that?... makes more sense?

Phonetic transcription? You actually don't know what it is? :-O



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Teeqoz on 26 April 2016
Ka-pi96 said:
Teeqoz said:

Phonetic transcription? You actually don't know what it is? :-O

I know wikipedia uses it. Which is why I don't use wikipedia for pronunciation. Seems kind of silly to have to learn another language to see how to pronounce things in English. Would be much better if they just wrote it phonetically in English.

Phonetic transcription is universal and is used to show how any word is pronounced. It's very useful if you're learning a different language (and with you having studied Japanese iirc, that seems like something that could've been useful). Most dictionaries will also include phonetic transcription of any given word, and will probably have a brief explanation of which sound each symbol represents. It's hardly "another language". You can learn it in about 30 minutes.



Player2 on 26 April 2016
Ka-pi96 said:
Teeqoz said:

Phonetic transcription? You actually don't know what it is? :-O

I know wikipedia uses it. Which is why I don't use wikipedia for pronunciation. Seems kind of silly to have to learn another language to see how to pronounce things in English. Would be much better if they just wrote it phonetically in English.

You can't do that because English has more phonems than letters.



think-man on 26 April 2016

I say tom ar to but thats how its prounced in NZ and Australia im not sure but i think we speak more closely to the English than Americans.



 

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Slarvax on 26 April 2016

This is why I never liked English. The letter "A" can be pronounced 2 ways, 1 of which doesn't actually involve said letter.

Spanish, on the other hand, is literally what you read. If it says "Paraíso", then it's freaking "Paraíso", no other way to say it



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Teeqoz on 26 April 2016
Ka-pi96 said:
Teeqoz said:

Phonetic transcription is universal and is used to show how any word is pronounced. It's very useful if you're learning a different language (and with you having studied Japanese iirc, that seems like something that could've been useful). Most dictionaries will also include phonetic transcription of any given word, and will probably have a brief explanation of which sound each symbol represents. It's hardly "another language". You can learn it in about 30 minutes.

Phonetic language anyway so it would be fairly redundant

eh, it's still something that seems unnecessary to me. I mean, it just looks... hard While something like fon-et-ik-al-lee doesn't require any additional learning

Lol, that's true about Japanese. Forgot that.

 

Anyway, seems more like you're just lazy. I mean, I literally learnt phonetic transcription just by looking up a few words I already knew how to pronounse (and I wasn't specifically trying to learn phonetic transcription either).

fon-et-ik-al-lee doesn't tell you for sure how to pronounce the diphtongs and vowels. It just works for you because you know how to pronounce them.

For instance, how do you pronounce the "o" in the "fon" part?

Is it like the o in:

"no"

or

"work"

or

"computer"

As you can see, that's three different ways you pronounce o, and those are just what I got from the top of my head.



Player2 on 26 April 2016
Slarvax said:
This is why I never liked English. The letter "A" can be pronounced 2 ways, 1 of which doesn't actually involve said letter.

Spanish, on the other hand, is literally what you read. If it says "Paraíso", then it's freaking "Paraíso", no other way to say it

The world chose the wrong language



binary solo on 26 April 2016
Ka-pi96 said:


So, do you pronounce it like tomarto or like tomayto?

I'm a tomarto kinda bear myself

Dude, it's tomahto not tomarto. There's no r, you'll be confusing all those American's who actually pronounce their r's whenever they see them.



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Teeqoz on 26 April 2016
binary solo said:
Ka-pi96 said:


So, do you pronounce it like tomarto or like tomayto?

I'm a tomarto kinda bear myself

Dude, it's tomahto not tomarto. There's no r, you'll be confusing all those American's who actually pronounce their r's whenever they see them.

I feel like this is more mocking the British for writing a bunch of r's they don't pronounce



-Ack!- on 26 April 2016

Tomaatti, obviously...
:P