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 #17 (permalink) Fri Sep 08, 2006 8:36 am Pastor-pasta :) |
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Hi Tamara!
I?m always grateful for your pointing out my mistakes. In this case my wrong spelling/use of pronunciation/pronouncing. :) Well, of course, one can?t pronounce a word without knowing its spelling, so I can?t prefer pronuciation before spelling. But sometimes it happens that between a verb and a noun there is a small difference in its bases and (at least ) I firstly notice it when anybody smashes my head with it!
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| Pronunciation vs pronounciation :) |
Hm... I took your correction for an own research using my dictionary! For pronunciation It offers me just one single solution : Pronunciation [noun]= "Aussprache" while pronounc/.... offers several opportunities [verb, adverb, adjective, noun] with the endings ....../e, eable, ment, ing but no ...../iation.
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Google:
25,000,000 for pronunciation
1,190,000 for pronounciation |
In this sense I discover an evidence for the effectivity of democracy, I mean democracy works and the majority is right. :wink: :lol: as the word pronouciation obviously doesn?t exist, does it?
By the way, I wonder how often you use the google as google is a search-machine only and just refers to the whole amounts of registrations in the web but don?t give any guarantee for the correctness of threads.
Michael
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| #18 (permalink) Fri Sep 08, 2006 9:10 am Pronouncing 'gooooooogle' :) |
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| one can?t pronounce a word without knowing its spelling |
Really? :shock:
Michael, were you silent and completely speechless in your childhood right until you had become literate? Until you've got the Literacy Certificate? :) :lol:
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| as the word pronouciation obviously doesn?t exist, does it? |
But it exists. In fact, de facto and as a matter of fact.
My democratic :) translation system contains both words.
Wikipedia just patiently transfers you right to the Pronunciation article, if you ask it for pronounciation.
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Michael, I normally use lots of reference books and on-line sources of information and data. And not only when learning English.
Google is just one and not the main, of course. To me.
Tamara
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| #19 (permalink) Fri Sep 08, 2006 17:31 pm How we think is how we talk? |
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Michael,
That's right bloodbro, it looks like we work too much lately.
I didn't hear about anyone who died of me, but it could be 'cause my hearing is not as good as it was before. :)
We try our best, that's all we can do, but I want to ensure you I still consider you my best ally in the jungle of internet.
By the way, I have some real good news:
They sell Czech Budweiser in Tesco, so I don't have to drive 50 kilometers for a good beer anymore :)
Take care my friend,
see you(r writing) later
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| #20 (permalink) Fri Nov 21, 2008 9:44 am How we think is how we talk? |
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While speaking clarity differs, it is possible to work on communication so that people can understand without any problems what one is trying to communicate.
As an example – consider the speaking clarity by BBC’s newsreaders – people in Europe, UK, India, Australia and America can understand them. They tend to use “accent neutral” English. |
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