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Loan words are a universal phenomenon.
by s17n 9y ago
Loan words are a universal phenomenon.
- IshKebab 9y agoYeah but he's saying they break pronunciation rules in other languages. They don't in English because the pronunciation is already all over the place. Also, they aren't universal - France tries really really hard to avoid them. They'll make up new French words for concepts that English would just import.
- Doxin 9y agoHow is being able to guess how to pronounce a word most of the time worse than never being able to guess?
- kmm 9y agoLoanwords often don't break pronunciation rules in English either. Vladimir, prosciutto, croissant are all pronounced as if they were English words by everyone but the most pedantic, and they sound very different in their origin language. Even surnames arent pronounced "right", cfr. Buscemi
- strictnein 9y ago> ... croissant are all pronounced as if they were English words People may not pronounce croissant like the French do, but they certainly do not pronounce it as written, which would be something like Croy-sant. People say cri-sont.
- beojan 9y ago> People may not pronounce croissant like the French do It's pretty close, well within the range of regional variation in English pronunciation.
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- FeteCommuniste 9y agoProsciutto and Buscemi are normally pronounced basically right, from what I've heard, setting aside the usual English reduction of unstressed vowels. Italian words typically suffer less deformation than French ones. "Bruschetta" being an exception.
- russellbeattie 9y agoI already gave two examples (and there are many more): Tortilla and hor d’oeuvres. Neither are pronounced phonetically.