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> Curséd With an acute accent, that should be roughly /ˌkɜːrˈseɪd/ “curse-ay-d”. (Think “café” or “sashayed”.) The stylised pronunciation being evoked is roug
by chrismorgan 2y ago
> Curséd
With an acute accent, that should be roughly /ˌkɜːrˈseɪd/ “curse-ay-d”. (Think “café” or “sashayed”.)
The stylised pronunciation being evoked is roughly /ˈkɜːrˌsɛd/, “curse-ed”, and would be written with a grave accent: “cursèd”.
- rzzzt 2y agoItalians will get close to the first pronunciation both ways, I think. The Zalgo line noise is an international way of signaling the level of curse in writing.
- bloppe 2y agoAccents mean different things in different languages. I'm assuming the author was invoking Spanish, where the acute accent impacts syllable stress but not pronunciation.