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> In English contractions like that are rare and sound weird when pronounced, English does exactly the same: "3-year mandatory contract" is pronounced as a sin
by gioele 11y ago
> In English contractions like that are rare and sound weird when pronounced,
English does exactly the same: "3-year mandatory contract" is pronounced as a single word. It is just a matter of writing convention.
«English word chains such as _child labour law_ may count as well, because it is merely an orthographic convention to write them as isolated words. Grammatically and phonetically they behave like one word (stress on the first syllable, plural morpheme at the end).»
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_language
- tinco 11y agoCool thanks, always nice to have some theory behind it. When I pronounced 'federalconstitutionalcourt' I did it like I imagined a CNN news reader would pronounce it, with big emphasis on each word. When I try as you say with stress on the first syllable it does sound more like one word, not so awkward at all.