Pronouncing Names (In IPA)

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21 Oct 2005, 5:39 pm

How do you pronounce your name phonologically? Use the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to transcribe the pronunciation, please.

Mine is pronounced /ne ̃ɑ ty ˈm̃ɛ/.

For Unicode character mappings for the IPA symbols, see IPA transcription in Unicode.

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21 Oct 2005, 6:19 pm

NATO phonetic alphabet is easier

tango hotel echo bravo lima alpha delta echo romeo oscar delta echo november!

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21 Oct 2005, 6:44 pm

TheBladeRoden wrote:

NATO phonetic alphabet is easier

tango hotel echo bravo lima alpha delta echo romeo oscar delta echo november!

You just spelled your name using NATO call letters. You didn't show a phonetic or phonological pronunciation.

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21 Oct 2005, 8:06 pm

Say "philosophy". Now remove "philo" and "y". Then add "ist" like in "getting the gist of something" to the end of "soph".

Now, what's that sound???

SOPHIST! !!

Or just say "so" and "fist" and put 'em together.

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21 Oct 2005, 8:41 pm

It's "fah" like the Sound of Music - fa, a long long way to run.

"reeq" sounds like "reek." For example, the trash reeks if you don't take it out for several days.

Let's put it together....fa-REEK

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21 Oct 2005, 9:21 pm

Why aren't any of you transcribing the pronunciation in IPA?

TheBladeRoden = /ðə ˈbleɪd roʊ dn̩/
fahreeq = /fɑ ˈrik/

Sophist = /ˈsoʊ fɪst/

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21 Oct 2005, 10:28 pm

You understand how it works, can you do my name?

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22 Oct 2005, 11:19 am

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Why aren't any of you transcribing the pronunciation in IPA?

Because I suspect most of us don't have a clue what it is, but only want to get the gist across.

My name is prounced "Pro-meat-thesis".

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22 Oct 2005, 12:31 pm

Really?!

You don't pronounce it like the mythological figure?

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22 Oct 2005, 12:35 pm

My name could be pronounced Derghaugwzlymwhan, but those of you who find that difficult (like I do) can pretend it's English instead (like I do...)

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22 Oct 2005, 12:36 pm

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Really?!

You don't pronounce it like the mythological figure?

I don't know how it is really pronounced, but this is how I pronouce it in my head.

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22 Oct 2005, 12:53 pm

I'm not a linguist, but I pronounce it Pro-mee-th-ee-ess or Pro-mee-th-ee-us.

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22 Oct 2005, 3:16 pm

Tim_p wrote:

I'm not a linguist, but I pronounce it Pro-mee-th-ee-ess or Pro-mee-th-ee-us.

Same here. And I know I'm always pronouncing NeantHumain's name wrong.

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22 Oct 2005, 7:43 pm

My name is Lucía Carolina. How do you pronounce it???

and how do you pronounce hadapúrpura?

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22 Oct 2005, 8:23 pm

Sarcastic_Name wrote:

You understand how it works, can you do my name?

Sure.

Prometheus wrote:

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Why aren't any of you transcribing the pronunciation in IPA?

Because I suspect most of us don't have a clue what it is, but only want to get the gist across.

I was hoping many of you would be enthused to learn a system that enables utterances spoken in any human language to be transcribed accurately and reproduceably.

Prometheus wrote:

My name is prounced "Pro-meat-thesis".

Not in IPA!

Sarcastic_Name = /ˌsɑr ˈkæ stɪk ˈneɪm/

Prometheus = /ˌproʊ ˈmi θi ɪs/

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23 Oct 2005, 10:03 am

Prometheus wrote:

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Why aren't any of you transcribing the pronunciation in IPA?

Because I suspect most of us don't have a clue what it is, but only want to get the gist across.

My name is prounced "Pro-meat-thesis".

I didn't have a clue, either. The sound descriptors didn't make any sense to me on the website.

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