Yeah but the guy in that YouTube tutorial seemed like he was implying that everybody should pronounce it correctly according to its language origin 🤷🏼♀️
Sometimes when a word gets borrowed from another language, the pronunciation comes along, too. Sometimes not. Every dictionary here says we aren’t using the Nahuatl pronunciation. It isn’t a thing, no matter what some guy on YouTube is saying.
I do prefer pronouncing axolotl phonetically to rhyme with Aristotle.
But I guess this kinda makes me curious about the Nahuatl language, why would they use the roman alphabet if they’re just gonna change the pronunciation of every letter into some unrelated nonsense 😵💫
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Not in English it ain’t.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah but the guy in that YouTube tutorial seemed like he was implying that everybody should pronounce it correctly according to its language origin 🤷🏼♀️
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Sometimes when a word gets borrowed from another language, the pronunciation comes along, too. Sometimes not. Every dictionary here says we aren’t using the Nahuatl pronunciation. It isn’t a thing, no matter what some guy on YouTube is saying.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I do prefer pronouncing axolotl phonetically to rhyme with Aristotle.
But I guess this kinda makes me curious about the Nahuatl language, why would they use the roman alphabet if they’re just gonna change the pronunciation of every letter into some unrelated nonsense 😵💫