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Levike wrote:"I'm sure there's rules."
Why does he use the verb is if rules is in plural?
I saw this in the Random Language Thread
and my question would be if this is correct or not or simply dialectal?
Youngfun wrote:How do you pronounce "there're"?
Youngfun wrote:But pronounced in "Koko's way", doesn't it become indistinguishable from "there"?
dEhiN wrote:Youngfun wrote:How do you pronounce "there're"?
I would say it like "there are" but quickly together. I guess the IPA would be [ðɛəɹɑɹ], though I might sometimes say it like Koko. But yeah it's a really weird word. I think it used to be more common, but then people started using "there's" for both.
Koko wrote:dEhiN wrote:Youngfun wrote:How do you pronounce "there're"?
I would say it like "there are" but quickly together. I guess the IPA would be [ðɛəɹɑɹ], though I might sometimes say it like Koko. But yeah it's a really weird word. I think it used to be more common, but then people started using "there's" for both.
I have a theory where the contracted 'r is essicated[*] (made /s/), and this is why we say "there's" for plurals as well. Of course, this is completely bizarre and unlikely.
[*]from esse (name of the letter) + (ic)ate (a verbal suffix for "making __")… I wonder if this is an actual word, auto-correct didn't try to correct it.
Koko wrote:But then the subject isn't plural: the subject is "it." I don't think "there" is a subject in this case.
Levike wrote:"The person below me will tell us one of the words that he or she has problems spelling."
Definitely higher/closer in my English. I learned to pronounce [ɐ] in Germany because it's the most common realisation of coda /ər/ and that is definitely not the same sound as my /ʌ/. (Inability to nail /ʌ/ is, in fact, one of the most widespread tells of a German accent. They always seem to substitute [a].)NickPR wrote:Central and back vowels
[flag=]en-uk[/flag][flag=]en-us[/flag] /ʌ/ - pronounced with unrounded lips, near-open, central - phonetically [ɐ]. Similar to Standard Romanian and Standard Polish /a/, but somewhat less open. In the US, usually somewhat more closer, sometimes also more back.
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