Comment on The Time Being
TachyonTele@piefed.social 3 weeks agoYou’re over pronouncing it. You just say it normally and the joke works perfectly fine vocally.
Comment on The Time Being
TachyonTele@piefed.social 3 weeks agoYou’re over pronouncing it. You just say it normally and the joke works perfectly fine vocally.
hakase@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
My comment was based on fluent speech, not careful speech.
I’m entertaining the idea that some of the commenters here may speak varieties (or even idiolects) where the two pronunciations have merged, but I think the more likely explanation is that they’re laypeople who (like many native speakers) aren’t able to detect stress contrasts in their own speech.
TachyonTele@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Anywho, I know who not to tell puns to…
hakase@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I love puns! I just thought this was a good opportunity to drop some interesting linguistic knowledge about prosody.