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Whatever, but it does not work, as I can easily demonstrate. I once tried to buy flashlight batteries from Vancouver. I tried every possible variation of BATTER
by timonoko 8y ago
Whatever, but it does not work, as I can easily demonstrate. I once tried to buy flashlight batteries from Vancouver. I tried every possible variation of BATTERY, but had to write it on paper.
Problem is that English does not have standard pronunciation, because writing is not phonetic. In other languages everybody knows what is the official pronunciation even if their own dialect vary wildly.
- Kiro 8y agoJust tried saying battery in many different ways, even mumbling and it got it correctly every time. No idea how you pronounce stuff in order to have such problems.
- timonoko 8y agoThe problem at time was the stress point. In most of my languages the stressing is flat or in the back. At first I started using the standard "BAT-TE-RII" of almost all languages, but realized soon it is maybe pronounced "BAT-RII", but failed to emphasize the first syllabel as in "BATTT-ri" and ended up varying forms of "baaat-RRRIIIIII".