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I think that's their point. I think the proper (Spanish) pronunciation is gwah-dah-loo-peh.
by camoufleur 3y ago
I think that's their point. I think the proper (Spanish) pronunciation is gwah-dah-loo-peh.
- narag 3y agoIsn't that the same? I mean for a native English speaker. Both seem good aproximations (from a native Spanish speaker pov).
- renewiltord 3y agoLoop vs Lu-peh. One has two syllables on the ending and the other has one. Surely that sounds noticeable different. Not saying it's right or wrong, but the two are different.
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- vintermann 3y agoI notice English speakers have a tendency to assume final e's are silent.
- shiroiuma 3y agoThere's a good reason for that: in English, a trailing e tends to be silent, but also to indicate that the previous vowel is different (long vs. short usually). So, to an English speaker, "lupe" looks like LOOP, which is different from "lup" which would be LUPP. Those aren't real words of course, so some similar words with this effect might be "flute", "lute", and "glute". "flut" and "lut" aren't words AFAIK (but "flutter" is), but "glut" definitely is, and has the short-u vowel sound as opposed to the long-u that "glute" has. The pronunciation rules in English aren't very good and are full of exceptions, but speakers are still just trying to apply the rules they know, based on other words they know, to foreign names.
- feiss 3y agoThat's the correct pronunciation, yup
- m463 3y agoright. And funny that I once ordered a sandwich in mexico, but they couldn't understand me until I pronounced it like san-doo-weee-ch