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caeli  ·  3418 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Do some words bother you?

Whoah, I just realized I can't produce the "th" there either!! I use a dentalized [t] instead. In fact, I think I do this with all [nθ] sequences. I wonder if this is common in English speakers.





Quatrarius  ·  3417 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Checking in with a dental θ instead of an interdental θ. I drop the t in the same situation, so I assumed the same would apply there.

arguewithatree  ·  3417 days ago  ·  link  ·  

how does one drop the T in synthesizer?? i'm whispering synthesizer at my desk like a weirdo trying to figure it out

Quatrarius  ·  3416 days ago  ·  link  ·  

winter and winner are homophones for me unless i really try to enunciate the t and it feels unnatural to do so

if the th in synthesizer was instead a t, it would sound to me like synne-sizer

as it is it just changes the sound to being created behind my front teeth instead of between the front and back

caeli  ·  3417 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yay idiolects!

hyperflare  ·  3417 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm not a native and it was in english class and my fuckhead class mates thought it was funny. Kind of a trauma, I guess. Germans to tend to have a hard time learning the th, basically just pronouncing it as t. It's actually a good way to detemrine how well someone speaks English.

caeli  ·  3417 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Stupid kids. You probably use an alveolar t... I'll have to listen to L2 speakers more now!

hyperflare  ·  3417 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The problem for me back then was the soft th contrasting with the sharp s (synthesizer). So for some reason I decided to say "synsesizer".

I feel like you would enjoy our 'intro to (computer)linguistics' lecture. Taught in English by a German professor.