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mEP
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ExittheLemming
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Posted: January 15 2011 at 05:55 |
Erm...try John Ruh and keep practising in front of the mirror.
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Nathaniel607
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Posted: January 15 2011 at 05:56 |
Yeah, that guy's right. It's not like "Jan-re" but more like "Djuan-re". Ha. Hard to explain...
Here, listen to this;
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mEP
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Posted: January 15 2011 at 05:58 |
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Dean
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Posted: January 15 2011 at 06:00 |
ExittheLemming wrote:
Erm...try John Ruh and keep practising in front of the mirror. |
hanging on to your Scots brogue Iain? John-Rah
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: January 15 2011 at 06:25 |
kflalfjslaj;lasjalsj;aljalsdjijskfal;sjfj click click
But actually it is pronounced john reh in my head.
What's kind of funny about language is that if you get an incorrect pronunciation stuck in your head, you likely won't be able to correct it.
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Majikthise
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Posted: January 15 2011 at 06:29 |
Seriously?
It's not a hard J sound, it's the soft one as found in "dijon mustard". Bearing that in mind, it's "jon-ruh".
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: January 15 2011 at 06:31 |
Majikthise wrote:
Seriously?
It's not a hard J sound, it's the soft one as found in "dijon mustard". Bearing that in mind, it's "jon-ruh". |
jean reh? dijionre? Yeah it's a g that's a soft j in my head.
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Dean
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Posted: January 15 2011 at 06:32 |
^ is that the French "jean" or the American "jean"?
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ExittheLemming
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Posted: January 15 2011 at 06:33 |
Dean wrote:
ExittheLemming wrote:
Erm...try John Ruh and keep practising in front of the mirror. |
hanging on to your Scots brogue Iain? John-Rah |
Yes, despite being surrounded all day, every day by the wretched so-called Australian Inflection (where the sentence rises at the end even if it's NOT a question?) You are a cunning linguist Mr Dean
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Posted: January 15 2011 at 06:57 |
I like your spelling better than Dean's. That's what I would have done.
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Posted: January 15 2011 at 06:59 |
GEN RY
Like Henry with a "Guh"
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Posted: January 15 2011 at 07:21 |
Majikthise wrote:
It's not a hard J sound, it's the soft one as found in "dijon mustard". Bearing that in mind, it's "jon-ruh". |
Yeap. Or like Dean says, it's the J from the French Jean.
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Posted: January 15 2011 at 07:40 |
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I like your spelling better than Dean's. That's what I would have done. |
that's the difference betwix the American/Scots and English pronunstipation
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mEP
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Posted: January 15 2011 at 07:48 |
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Dean
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Posted: January 15 2011 at 07:57 |
mEP wrote:
harmonium.ro wrote:
it's the J from the French Jean.
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Does the word come from Frenchland, or did we(/they) put the weird J there just for the hell of it?
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It's a borrowed french word, meaning "kind"
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Posted: January 15 2011 at 08:00 |
zhon-ruh, or more appropriately: zhän-rə
That first sound (zh) is like the middle of the word "measure" (meh-zhur).
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popeyethecat
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Posted: January 15 2011 at 09:11 |
Interesting, I had a friend say "janruh" (soft j) all day yesterday and I thought "that isn't right, is it? It can't be!". I'm glad I'm actually right, haha.
But the word I DO get confused about is "timbre". Bloody French borrow words!
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ExittheLemming
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Posted: January 15 2011 at 09:39 |
popeyethecat wrote:
Interesting, I had a friend say "janruh" (soft j) all day yesterday and I thought "that isn't right, is it? It can't be!". I'm glad I'm actually right, haha.
But the word I DO get confused about is "timbre". Bloody French borrow words!
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It's Tam Brea(d) with dropped 'D' tuning (so to speak) If anyone says aluminium, we'll be here for days....
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Posted: January 15 2011 at 09:50 |
mEP wrote:
Like the title says, I'm not really sure how to pronounce the word genre.
I used to think it was "jen-re", but someone corrected me and said it was "djaaaan-er" I got angry and came here.
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that's a heavy load for us, really ... hopefully next time you come in with honourable intentions I would say it's 'Jean Re' by the way
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