>English isn't phonetic

Rough
>ruff

(Th)rough
>thru

>"ough" is pronounced -uff AND -u

Really makes me think

>>69071842
And -oh

>though

This is huh - wow!

>Live
I live in London

>Live
The show is live.

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>>69071728
>"""""Língua"""" Inglesa

>>69071842
>>69071890
>>69071952
>this makes it non phonetic
http://canadafreepress.com/article/is-english-a-phonetic-language-of-course.-100

>>69071728
lol

>>69072177
>this makes it non phonetic
yep

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>tfw to intelligent too speak a non-phonetic language

>>69073379
No, is the slight inconsistency to hard for hues to follow?

>>69071842
Why do you pronounce thorough as 'thu-row'?

>>69074353
Nigger, english pronunciation is so fucked up it is documented.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift

>>69074353
Slight inconsistency is the use of "s" "ss" "ç" and "c" in Portuguese. English in the other hand is totally retarded.

The only true phonetic ortophone language is japanese

its a hieroglyphic language

>>69074465
why do you ignore "R"s?
why do you pronounce "Argentina" as "Argentiner"
a and er are 2 completely different sounds.

It's fun-etic

haha thanks guys

>>69071842
Tough
> tuff

Though
> soe

Thought
> sawt

>>69074927
Don't know
We pronounce it as Argentinuh

>>69074992
none of those is correct except for maybe tuff

>fire
fajer
>queue
quee

>>69074992
>s

>>69075059
you do that with everything though.
everything that ends in "a" you pronounces as "er", it sounds so wrong.

>>69075070
Eat shit.
Tough thought, though.

>>69075115
vocaroo yourself

>>69074976
I pronounce it foh-netic though.

>>69075081
It's kew not quee which is like "kaee"

>>69075219
nah I can't do it, I roll the r.
you know what I mean though, right?
during the rugby world cup I remember casters saying "tonger" instead of "tonga", really annoying

>>69075485
ton-gah would sound stupid though

>Sh instead of Ş
>ch instead of Ç
>a fuckin letter in words that are not pronounced
>phonetic

>>69075552
but it's tonga, what the fuCK ARE YOU EVEN TALKING ABOUT

>>69075599
whatevs

>>69075667
no, I demand an explanation.

if it's written tonga, why do you pronounce it "tonger", I don't get it.
they're 2 very different sounds.

>>69075589
Yoo rather wee wriet liek this?

>>69071728
>English isn't phonetic
Phucked language lol

>>69075727
No idea, ton-ga sounds unnatural to me.

>>69075727
Brits just don't open their mouth wide enough to make the ah sound so it comes out sounding like uh.

Non fonethik spelling shud bii meid illiigal bai inthörnääshönal loo and khonsiderd a hjyumän raits vaioleishön thy bii kvait anest.

Spanish do it better than everyone Tbh

>>69075803
Can tell someone is an American without hearing them just by how wide they open their mouths when talking desu

>>69075081
>faiör
>kjyu

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>>69075894

>>69075803
your black people do the same except backwards.
nigger becomes nigga and such.
I never minded that though because it's supposed to be something that uneducated low scum people do.

are brits reverse niggers?

>>69075727
I know what you mean as it sounds bizarre to American ears too. India becomes Indiar, Tonga is Tongar, etc.

>>69075847
No, Italian is perfect. Spanish lacks half the phonemes of the other romance languages.

>>69075979
>are brits reverse niggers?
Yes, they are handsdown the best race in the world and I truly believe they are the descendant of God or were at least touched by God's hands or something, NOT the Jews.

>>69076006
yeah but it's 100% phonetic.
it doesn't matter if it's a word that you don't know, so long as it's the spanish pronounciation and not a castilian adaptation of a foreign word, you're going to say it right when you read it, always.

>>69076143
English speaker here. I can read (aloud) Spanish just as fast as I can read English, because of this (even though I still need a dictionary occasionally to look up meanings).

>>69076143
>you're going to say it right when you read it, always
Portuguese could be that way too if we didn't have the open "e" and "o".

>>69076143
>it doesn't matter if it's a word that you don't know, so long as it's the spanish pronounciation and not a castilian adaptation of a foreign word, you're going to say it right when you read it, always.
it duhsent mahtter if its ay woerd thaht yoo dohnt noh, soh laung ahs its thuh spahnish pronunseeäshun ahnd naut ah cahstileahn ahdahptayshun auf ay fohreen woerd, yoor goheng too say it riet wen yoo reed it, ahlways.

read (present tense)
>"reed"

read (past tense)
>"red"

the -ed at the end of words always triggered me.
this sound something like "t" or "d" and not "aid" or "id" like it's used to be if this retarded language was phonetic.

>>69078105
>-ed at the end of words
It's a trick for every french.
But, to be fair, our language is surely a nightmare to pronounce.

>>69078105
>"aid" or "id"

wat

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The letter "a" is pronounced differently in each of these words:
>fall
>fat
>father
>fairy

>>69078410
- searched
>search't instead of searchaid
- baked
>bak't instead of bakaid
- kicked
>kick't instead of Kickaid

you see? it's a fucking cancer.
but strangely some words like "grounded" sound with the "aid" at the end.... it's fucking awful.

>>69078990
why the fuck would they sound like "aid", what are you on about?
that doesn't make any sense.

unless you're trying to explain phonetically in french, which would be retarded because nobody would know the sound you're referring to.

>>69078990
>French
>complaining about pronunciation
je suis lol

>>69079200
Bueno maricon, en espanol se diria algo como "éd" pero pronunciando el "e" y el "d" y no remplazando eso por un puto "t"

>Gothi=Fish.jpg

>>69079316
exactly what I thought.
to be fair "t" is just a stronger "d".
and sometimes it is actually pronounced "ed" and not "t"

>>69078990
>but strangely some words like "grounded" sound with the "aid" at the end.... it's fucking awful.

That's because "ground" finishes with a d. If the initial word finishes with t or d, it is pronounced like that.

Here's a tip: pronounce the final letter of the initial word, if you can feel that your vocal cords move when you extend the sound of the letter, then, the word is pronounced with a final "d".

Example: learned --> n moves your vocal folds move --> learn'd

If they don't move, pronounce the word with a t

kick-> kicked -- > kikt

It's very easy.

>>69080039
makes your vocal folds move

>>69071728
Yeah, fuck english. Go Spanish.

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>>69076143
This

inglish spelling änd pronunsieissön is hiaroglif tier

bat amerikäns dount spiik eni oter längvidgses sou tei dount knouv eni beter

>>69072177
>http://canadafreepress.com/article/is-english-a-phonetic-language-of-course.-100
That is the most retarded " article" I've ever read, well done sir

>>69074353
You have no idea how english pronunciation is broken...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYplM1QCv0Y

There's even a gigantic poem about it, from 1922.

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>>69071728
English speakers will defend this

>>69082213
I have no problems whatsoever with pronouncing those words.
except for like 10 that I didn't know.

I would vocaroo but it's too long

My mind was blown when I learned the trick of -ed verbs pronunciation

>>69075081
>queue

More like just Q

>>69082213
>Haunt but aunt
Any one that says ant should kill themselves, enter poem is ruined

>>69071728
http://www.i18nguy.com/chaos.html
Yet to see a native speaker recite it correctly.

>>69078990
It's [t] after an unvoiced consonant except t, [d] after a voiced consonant except d and [id] after t and d. I learned it in school when I was eight, the fuck's wrong with French education?

>>69071728

Don't even get me started...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_in_the_United_Kingdom_and_Ireland_with_counterintuitive_pronunciations

Aldeburgh – (Pronounced ALL-BR'A /ˈɔːlbrə/)
Alverdiscott – (Pronounced OLSS-KOT or ALLS-KOT /ɒlskɒt/ or /ɔːlskɒt/)
Barnoldswick – (Pronounced locally as BAR-LIK /ˈbɑrlJk/)
Beaudesert – (Pronounced BELZA /ˈbɛlzər/)
Belvoir – (Pronounced BEAVER /ˈbiːvər/)
Burgh by Sands – (Pronounced BRUFF /ˈbrʌf/)
Happisburgh – (Pronounced HAZEBR'A /ˈheJzbrə/)
Haverholme – (Pronounced AVREM /ævrəm/)
Staithes – (Pronounced STEERZ /ˈstJərz/)

Why even bother with an alphabet?

>>69075081
>queue
kju

>>69088249
dont forget Reading (city)

>>69088249
you forgot : Leicester pronounced Lay-s(ç)ter instead of Lay-(s)ches-ter or Lay-s(ç)es-ter

>>69071728
It isn't, and I fucking hate it.

>you have an elongated o in your foreign word? fuck you, it's an "ou" now

>>69074992
no

taff
thou
thoot

>>69075081
fire is faija though

>>69071728
>Lester

>>69080988
Anyone who can speak two languages is no longer Anglo.

>>69075727
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/32619/why-is-idea-sometimes-pronounced-as-idear

A = E
E = I
I = Y
Y = Why

Wesley is spelled as DoubleUISLIWhy

Reminder that in Italian, a so-called phonetic language,

>O is pronounced "oh"
>gnocchi is pronounced nyawkee

I don't want to hear anyone tell me that Italian is phonetic while this shit goes on

>>69098103
Dabbel Yu

>>69093531
>thoot
You're kidding right?

>>69098142

>nyawkee

WTF? United statians...

>>69098142
wtf i hate italy now
>mfw speaking a true phonetic language where we pronounce the Z and C sound correctly (the so called "lisp")