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Is the speaker from the Nordics? Everyone in the Nordics say "J" as "Y" because that's how it's pronounced in their languages and they think English speakers (a
by brabel 2y ago
Is the speaker from the Nordics? Everyone in the Nordics say "J" as "Y" because that's how it's pronounced in their languages and they think English speakers (and speakers of every other language that uses the Latin alphabet) are just mispronouncing it.
- fulafel 2y agoLatin alphabet using languages that do it similarly as nordics: german, dutch, czech, polish, hungarian, latvian, etc. Also the international phonetic alphabet.
- brabel 2y agoAre you arguing that the sound of "J" in English (and the very different sounds of it in Portuguese, Spanish, Italian etc.) is wrong? Sounds of words change over time and that's probably why the same letters are pronounced so differently in different languages, though they might have been used to represent the same sounds originally.
- fulafel 2y agoNot arguing that, these langugaes just use the alphabet differently. I was mainly reacting to the "speakers of every other language that uses the Latin alphabet" part to give some counterexamples.