Why do Americans insist on saying eye-ran and eye-raq, yet they can say Italy?
>>530307578it's copying how Southerners in US speak which they associate with military who use diphongs (two vowels in one) in their vowels, especially to emphasise the rhotic r. Iran and Iraq start with vowels followed by an r but i can't take a diphong so they change it to ai, airaq airan. Italy is a vowel followed by a consonant that isn't a rhotic r but the t changes to a d so it's easier to pronounce it as i, eedaly
>>530307578Dearest creature in creation,Study English pronunciation.I will teach you in my verseSounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.I will keep you, Suzy, busy,Make your head with heat grow dizzy.Tear in eye, your dress will tear.So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.Just compare heart, beard, and heard,Dies and diet, lord and word,Sword and sward, retain and Britain.(Mind the latter, how it's written.)Now I surely will not plague youWith such words as plaque and ague.But be careful how you speak:Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;Cloven, oven, how and low,Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.Hear me say, devoid of trickery,Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,Exiles, similes, and reviles;Scholar, vicar, and cigar,Solar, mica, war and far;One, anemone, Balmoral,Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;Gertrude, German, wind and mind,Scene, Melpomene, mankind.Billet does not rhyme with ballet,Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.Blood and flood are not like food,Nor is mould like should and would.Viscous, viscount, load and broad,Toward, to forward, to reward.And your pronunciation's OKWhen you correctly say croquet,Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,Friend and fiend, alive and live.
>>530308626this difference in pronunciation is called 'lenition' (softening consonants based on what vowels are before or after it) and 'fortition' (hardening consonants). it's actually a feature of Celtic languages and isn't usually written in English so you get lots of different accents.
>>530307578I say eye+tally
>>530307578I do not like koreaI am not a fan of k pop musicor troon anime stuff like thatI do not understand why korea is so gaynot saying we do not have a problem in the US with homosexuals
>>530307578It is actually called Farsthat what you should call that place
MEH-RIO
>>530307578For me it's Ko-ree-uh
>>530309594>Amereyeca
>>530307578I dont have to learn how to pronounce foreign words and you also cant make me.
>>530307578>looks for rationality in burgers
The fuck is wrong with the English language?
>>530310637there are rules, but the rules are so complicated and esoteric it looks like there are none since nobody can explain them
Pronouncing the "T" sound as an "R" sounds the dumbestSo I use the British pronunciation
>>530307578They used to say eye-talian. Some still do depending on the accent
>>530307578
I say Iran properly, but I do say "Eye-rack". I have no idea why.>>530308295My mammaw said Italy as "It-lee".
>>530308295fpbp and explains the way larpers like Condolezza pronounce allies (al-áyys)
>>530310854they can say ai-italian because it ends with a diphthong sound (ian). italy doesn't
>>530307578english is a weird language with arbitrary pronunciations, seeearbearbeardheardfear
>>530310578Then don't say them. Better if you don't say anything.
>>530307578I've always been saying eyetaly
>>530310933because Iran ends is a soft nasal consonant n close to pronuncing r and Iraq ends in a hard consonant q/k from the back of the throat (uvular) so harder to go from r to k than r to n and Southern US english is all about slurring and sounding effortless
>>530310761If no one can explain them, then it's impossible to say if there are rules. But joking aside, I know the rules. I have the unfortunate privilege of being married to a polyglottal, and she drones on and on and on about various rules for different languages.
Don't forget Eye-talians.
>>530307578It jus dey culcha
>>530308626chatgpt ahh post
Americanese is hilarious they just make up as they go along. >”…as they go aye-long”. Their names are the best, as children we used to enjoy laughing at the credits after American TV programmes. >Zad Bezzlemonkey>Tingle Woopingparp>Yosamite Snitchelbiscuitetc.
>>530310933Iraq is basically impossible for an english speaker to pronounce correctly anyway. It's basically a weird semitic croak that actually starts with a consonant.
>>530307578HAHA FILTHY AMERICAN PIGU WANT BUIRGERU WANT PIZZA?.jpg, you know the one
>>530311494You seem like a language guru. Why do some people say "Warshington" instead of "Washington"? Old English had a lot more R's all over the place and I thought it might be some leftover from that?
>>530307578You're that shitskin bot.I'll update my filters.
>>530312110?It starts the same as Italy
Can Americans even understand each other? It seems like they try to soften every single pronunciation.T. water >> warrarr City > si-dee Party > parry
>>530312207it's not an r, it's a long a vowel, we spell long vowels with a r in English. this long vowel in 3 syllable place names (Varncouver, Florida, Teexas) also seems to be a feature of American English related to the use of diphthongs (which are basically a form of long vowel).
>>530312523No, it does not. It starts with this bizarre letter:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayin
>>530310854eye-tie was an old slang name for Italians
>>530312780I can understand everyone here except for yinzers
>>530307578eye don't give a shit.
>>530307578My retarded aunt says italy correctly but "italian" as "eye-talian" in her retarded ohio accent
>>530313079>pharyngeal fricativeFucking sandniggers.
>>530313643It's just fun Americanisms like saying "Targét"
>>530312791Why did Americans turn "arse" into "ass?"
>>530307578I see a lot of people say Eh-Rahn
>>530307578>Why do AmericansRENTFUCKINGFREE
>>530307578Not true.In the south, we still call them >EYE-talians
>>530312791Texas is 2 syllables and it opening vowel is a diphthong (Tayxas), then Mexico which is 3 syllables the opening vowel becomes a long e or a diphthong too (Mayxico) depending on the speaker. That is probably where it comes from.>>530314195because you decided to write it how it is pronounced, but then some Brits started to pronounce the r too so that stays spelt like that.
>>530310791This!!!
>>530307578Is this only true for Americans, or is it the same for Canadians, Australians, etc?
>>530307578Because it pisses off brown retards like you that let everything America does live rent free in your mind.
>>530307578because the brits were raped by romans so their vocals have both anglogermanic-grecolatin pronunciation. it's dumb but you're dumber, I mean you're a fucking gook
>>530312780You don't turn a t sound into an r sound. You turn it into a d sound. Wahdder. Parrdy.
>>530316052the r is trilled/rolled in most languages so it sounds like a d, English is unique in that it doesn't have a rolled r but only a rhotic one other than in some dialects
>>530307578Same reason why they say "NOOKEELAR weapons"
>>530316901Nobody says that. We say new q lur.
>>530307578my fav is aye-rab
>>530307578English phonology is why.
