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> The author pronounces it [aɡe̞] with a hard g, like GIF Lol, or 'git' according to one of my more sensitive colleagues.
by kitd 2y ago
> The author pronounces it [aɡe̞] with a hard g, like GIF
Lol, or 'git' according to one of my more sensitive colleagues.
- thaumasiotes 2y ago'Git' is a preexisting word; it'd be pretty strange to pronounce it with a soft G. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/git#Etymology_1 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/git#Etymology_1 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/git#Etymology_2 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/git#Etymology_2 It'd be like naming your software fukr and then insisting "no no no, the R is pronounced 'are', not 'er'."
- kitd 2y agoGit' is a preexisting word; it'd be pretty strange to pronounce it with a soft G. It certainly was when I heard it.
- gjvc 2y agoI work with a French guy who uses "szheet"
- ljlolel 2y agoOr Coq?
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- nvy 2y agoCoq is pronounced exactly how it looks. It's the French word for rooster and for the language, comes from part of the guy's name.
- thaumasiotes 2y ago> It's the French word for rooster It's also the English word for rooster.
- nvy 2y agoWell, cock is. Coq is not an English word.
- stavros 2y agoAs opposed to "age"?
- thaumasiotes 2y agoNo, "age" is not only a preexisting word, it's one that's common as dirt. Having the rust port be "rage" only compounds the problem. The author's rather Italian-looking name tends to suggest that he wouldn't view a hard G as a possibility for the word "age" either (and the pronunciation link specifically goes to a synthetic Italian pronunciation of the word "aghe"...), so something else is going on.
- stavros 2y agoI don't understand how the author wants to pronounce it. "ag-ay"? It's very confusing that it's an extremely common word which this program decides to pronounce differently.
- thaumasiotes 2y ago> I don't understand how the author wants to pronounce it. "ag-ay"? More or less. In the technical specifics, the English FACE vowel is a diphthong ending at a pretty high point ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vowel#Height https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vowel#Height ), whereas the indicated pronunciation is a monophthong that should be a bit lower. You might think of the English vowels in FACE / PRICE / CHOICE / GOAT / MOUTH as being "closed off" by a rapid upward tongue movement towards the end of their pronunciation; what the author is asking for here is a version of "FACE" that doesn't have that closure. Or, alternatively, a version of DRESS [which is already a monophthong] that uses a bit higher of a tongue position.
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- stavros 2y agoIs the "like gif" part a joke? You can't use a famously ambiguous word as an example of pronunciation!