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No, "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 Itali
by thaumasiotes 2y ago
No, "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.