I've been pronouncing 'Banal' as 'Anal'

it's not said like that?

>>8355372
You thought the B was silent? Dumb frogposter.

>>8355375
First a is like the first a in banana. Second is like "all".

>>8355372
They didn't correct you because both ways of pronouncing Banal are correct.

>>8355395
Except
>>8355387
just gave a third way, somehow.

>>8355372
There's no correct way of pronouncing anything, only a way that let's you communicate with people. If someone tries to correct you, then it means they already understood you, thus you need not be corrected.

>>8355401
What's the second way then. Those are the only two I've ever heard.

>>8355372
With the b? So like bane-al?

>>8355478
Ban-aal.

>>8355485
Really? I'm not a native speaker and I always pronounced the word just like OP.

>constantly feel embarrased about having to read alout in class due to fear of mispronouncing words
>other students are confident and plow straight through without worrying about butchering foreign/obscure words
>constantly hear audiobook narrators mispronouncing words

i bet ya'll pronounce crevasse as "kreviss" too

>>8355509
crevasse, crevice, whatever

>>8355489
Yep, really.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/File:en-uk-banal.ogg

>>8355515
Those aren't the same word. A crevice is small, a crevasse is large.
>The girl had a crevice between her legs.
>Your mother has a crevasse between her legs.

>>8355372
It's okay, language is a social construct.

>>8355484
bane?

>the asking for a draught (drawt) of Guinness for years

>>8355931
Drought Beer is pronounced 'Drawt' in Commonwealth countries, and 'Draft' in US.

>>8355939
We say "draft" in Canada

>>8355372
And there's something terribly sad and banal about that.

>>8355953
That's nice, Candy, that's nice.

>>8355939
Where in the fuck are you even claiming to be from?

It's Draught, pronounced Draft, you witless gibbon.

Mind you, getting actual beer out of a real keg isn't so special we need to have a word for it.

Bottled beers are for club twats.

- T. English warm beer drinker.

>>8355372
>fellow colleagues

>>8355372
English is literally the worst lenguage, we dont have those problems with Spanish.

In spanish a word is written and read in the same way and if you fuck the pronunciation of a word, you are probably clinically retarded or Andalusian

>>8356125
Yeah, central/south american spanish pronounciation is pretty easy

>>8356135
I was talking about spaniard pronunciation specifically, in south America you have some weird things like "S" instead of "z" and cutting out the last "s" of a word

>>8355372
whats with all these newfags not having watched a dfw interview...

>>8355509
>typing out y'all
Facebook please go

>>8356189
LOL

nah

>>8355820
For you.

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>>8356116