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Hello,
Some cannot pronounce the /th/ sound. That's embarrassing especially for girls. A girl may say "I brushed my teat (ti:t)" instead of "I brushed my teeth (ti:θ)."
I have a book called Dangerous English. Let me quote some of the examples:
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Third/Turd
Farther/Farter
Theses/Feces
Ray/Lay
Rust/Lust
Rude/Lewd
Lump/Rump
Clap/Crap
Elect/Erect
Election/Erection
Blessed/Breast
Bee/Pee
Brick/Prick
City/Shitty
Please sit down/Please shit down |
People from Japan, for example, have some difficulties with the /r/ and /l/ sounds. So they are likely to made some of the above mistakes.
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| #3 (permalink) Fri Jun 26, 2009 9:22 am Nasty girls or let's talk about linguistic funs |
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| Happytofita wrote: |
People from Japan, for example, have some difficulties with the /r/ and /l/ sounds. So they are likely to made some of the above mistakes.
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Actually they have no problem with sound "r" - it's just sound "l" which causes problems because it's absent in Japanese language. So they put "r" instead of "l".
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| #4 (permalink) Fri Jun 26, 2009 11:54 am Nasty girls or let's talk about linguistic funs |
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Many Arabs can't pronounce the "p" sound, and they replace it with "b", which causes a lot of funny miscommunications, and if a sentence has enough P's, the people might be almost impossible to understand.
The Arabs in my city tell a story about an Arab who drove into a parking lot downtown and asked the attendant, "Can I bark here?" The attendant replied, "This is America! You can bark anywhere you want!" |
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| #5 (permalink) Sat Jun 27, 2009 12:30 pm Nasty girls or let's talk about linguistic funs |
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That's funny. :D
I think Arabs somtimes confuse the /v/ sound with /b/. :roll: |
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| #6 (permalink) Sat Jun 27, 2009 12:38 pm Nasty girls or let's talk about linguistic funs |
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| Happytofita wrote: |
| I think Arabs somtimes confuse the /v/ sound with /b/. :roll: |
I've never seen that, and I deal with a lot of Arabs all the time. |
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| #7 (permalink) Mon Jun 29, 2009 20:23 pm Nasty girls or let's talk about linguistic funs |
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Another interesting thing is talking with Bulgarians. If you are still unaware I'll tell you that Bulgarians when they want to nod affirmative do shake their head from side to side: just as most other people do to object, And vice versa: when they want to disagree they shake their heads up and down as most people do to express consent.
Still more confusing for Russians is the meaning of the word "to the right" (napravo) which in Bulgarian sounds the same but means "straight ahead". :-) Now imagine the situation: a couple of people I know arrived to a famous Bulgarian resort late at night. In the morning they walk out of the hotel and being totally sure that all Bulgarians speak Russian, ask a passer-by: "Where is the sea?" I must say that the phrase sounds the same both in Russian and Bulgarian. So the folks get an astonishing answer: "Napravo". It is astonishing because obviously one can expect to find to the right hand anything but the sea. :-D
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| #8 (permalink) Tue Jun 30, 2009 7:10 am Nasty girls or let's talk about linguistic funs |
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Where on earth do people willingly burp at the table to acknowledge a good meal?
If I burp while we're eating, my girlfriend/roommate smacks me or at least lays into me verbally: "Is that what Yankees do at the table?! It's rude, crude and uncouth!"
I have heard that burping at the table is taken as a compliment... in some locales.
Where?
Because that is THE NEXT place I'm taking the woman. I'm almost malicious, but after years of swallowed burps I feel like letting loose with a few good "rrrrrrip" burps in her face.
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| #9 (permalink) Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:16 am Nasty girls or let's talk about linguistic funs |
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Go to the Emirates, Prezbucky :-)
By the way, burping happens when you swallow to much air during your meal. Talking to much, huh?
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| #10 (permalink) Tue Jun 30, 2009 15:48 pm Nasty girls or let's talk about linguistic funs |
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I generally avoid conversation during meals. But I'd love to just let one rip -- 100% intentionally. Like that. And that. Okay, people are staring.
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| #11 (permalink) Sat Jul 04, 2009 19:18 pm Nasty girls or let's talk about linguistic funs |
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"This is America! You can burp anywhere you want!" :-D
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| #12 (permalink) Sat Jul 04, 2009 21:03 pm Nasty girls or let's talk about linguistic funs |
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| Happytofita wrote: |
Some cannot pronounce the /th/ sound. That's embarrassing especially for girls. A girl may say "I brushed my teat (ti:t)" instead of "I brushed my teeth (ti:θ)."
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This thing happens to me all the time. :( Do you have any advice? |
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| #13 (permalink) Sat Jul 25, 2009 19:32 pm Nasty girls or let's talk about linguistic funs |
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| Someone wrote: |
| Happytofita wrote: |
People from Japan, for example, have some difficulties with the /r/ and /l/ sounds. So they are likely to made some of the above mistakes.
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Actually they have no problem with sound "r" - it's just sound "l" which causes problems because it's absent in Japanese language. So they put "r" instead of "l". |
Not quite true. I think the real problem is that they both exist in the same sound. What you said is accepted commonly, even my Japanese teacher told me that they don't have the "l" sound. And yet everytime she spoke, I could hear the "l" sound coming out of her.
And then the mystery continued as I discovered that the males are more inclined to produce this mysterious sound. I first noticed it when I heard the word "Aishiteru" [ I love you] in some songs, because at some moments, they sounded more like "Aishitelu", rather than "Aishiteru".
Still, I could not figure it out and so I told myself maybe it was just my imagination (because everybody around me said otherwise) :). Until one day, I was helping a Japanese friend with some English pronunciations. He kept saying that he could not hear the difference between "r" and "l". And when I finally, finally listened to him, and tried to produce the sound that he was making, I found out that every time I tried to produce the "l" sound the way he did, I was making the "l" sound only with my tongue positioned as when I am producing an "r" sound!
No wonder! I was overwhelmed by my findings but I get it now why it's really hard for them to pronounce or write any word with "l" and "r". I paid more attention to other classmates, and I was right, they do mix the sound. So I think it's not quite right to say that the "l" sound is missing in the Japanese language. It's true that it doesn't have a representative but it's there, only hidden. :)
As for my friend, even when he got some words right, he still said he didn't know the difference! |
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| #14 (permalink) Sat Jul 25, 2009 20:59 pm Nasty girls or let's talk about linguistic funs |
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| Jamie (K) wrote: |
| Happytofita wrote: |
| I think Arabs somtimes confuse the /v/ sound with /b/. :roll: |
I've never seen that, and I deal with a lot of Arabs all the time. |
I am arabian
we confuse v with f
and p with b
because we have not the v and p in our lan.
and r we cannot pronounce it like native English
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