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For folks like me puzzling over what the correct transcription of the title should be, I think it's "How to recognize speech using common sense"
by abound 1y ago
For folks like me puzzling over what the correct transcription of the title should be, I think it's "How to recognize speech using common sense"
- fiatjaf 1y agoThank you very much!
- strken 1y agoThank you! "Calm incense" makes very little sense when said in an accent where calm isn't pronounced like com.
- solardev 1y agoHow is calm pronounced in those accents?
- drited 1y agoCahm
- solardev 1y agoLike the "cam" in "camera"?
- yokljo 1y agoI've been thinking about this for a minute, and I think if an American were to say "why", and take only the most open vowel sound from that word and put it between "k" and "m", you get a pretty decent Australian pronunciation. I am an Australian so I could be entirely wrong about how one pronounces "why".
- appease7727 1y agoNo, with a long vowel sound. Caaahm. The L is blended into the M so much that it's almost silent. Unless you're specifically enunciating it. The common usage lacks the L sound, but it is acceptable to intentionally add it back in for disambiguation
- strken 1y agoIn Australian English, calm rhymes with farm and uses a long vowel, while com uses a short vowel and would rhyme with prom. (I know this doesn't help much because some American accents also rhyme prom with farm). Consider the way "Commonwealth Bank" is pronounced in this news story: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MhkuHGRAAbg https://youtube.com/watch?v=MhkuHGRAAbg. An Australian English speaker would consider (most) Americans to be saying something like "Carmenwealth" rather "Commonwealth". See also the pronunciation of dog vs father in https://www.goalsenglish.com/lessons/2020/5/4/australian-english-vs-american-english-part-one-accent-differences https://www.goalsenglish.com/lessons/2020/5/4/australian-eng.... It really ruins some poetry.
- Macha 1y agocall-mm
- troad 1y agoIt's not 'calm' that differs, it's 'common'. Calm like palm, in all major accents. Traditionally, calm and com- have different vowels in English, but most North American accents merge com- into calm. All other major English accents retain the distinction. If you're American, try saying 'com' while rounding your lips. Or just listen to a recording of 'common' in an online dictionary from Britain or Australia. (Or lot, pot, spot, etc.) TLDR (simplified): US/Ca: (lot = palm) ≠ start UK/Au: lot ≠ (palm = start)
- efilife 1y agoThanks. Now I know that I'm not that stupid and this actually makes no sense
- chipsrafferty 1y agoIt actually does make sense. Not saying you're stupid, but in standard English, if you say it quickly, the two sentences are nearly identical.
- mjw_byrne 1y agoThey're pretty different in British English, I struggled to figure it out until I started thinking about how it would sound with an American accent.
- codedokode 1y agoBut in "you sing", "s" is pronounced as "s", not as "z" from "using", right?
- squeaky-clean 1y agoI pronounce using with an S unless I'm saying it very slowly
- codedokode 1y agoI only got the "How to recognize" part. Also I think "using" should sound more like "you zinc" than "you sing".
- wdaher 1y agoThis is the correct parsing of it. (I can't take credit for coming up with the title, but I worked on the project.)