it’s not hard, they are just american.
Comment on Anon reads Don Quixote
baahb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day agoRo Cin An Te
Roh sin ahn the
Rocinante
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Thin, not sin.
Ro as in rod. Thin as in, well, thin. An as in ant. Te as in tent.
olafurp@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Latin American Spanish might disagree so both sin and thin pass. Book came out before the languages split after all.
Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
So you are saying it’s
raa - thin - an - teh??That’s wild… I’m convinced you are not pronouncing ‘ant’ or ‘tent’ “correctly” for those to be your suggestions…
Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They’re right, afaik. An as in land, te as in test.
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Hm… Ro as in Ross…? The rest is the correct pronunciation, yes.
And I don’t know… an as in anvil and te as in tenant…? English, being several unrelated languages in a trenchcoat, can be a bit weird, and pronunciation varies excessively with dialects…
The vowels in Castilian (aka Spanish outside of Spain and other Castilian speaking countries) are very simple, five vowels, five sounds, pronounced more or less as they would have been in Latin.
C is pronounced like a k or a hard z, never as an s (except in some dialects).
Rocinante. From rocín and antes, for he was a rocín (old horse) before being Quijote’s steed (also during, but the old man wasn’t all there).
Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Why would you make it a ‘th’ at the end??
baahb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Autocorrect is a motherfucker
Moxie_empathizer@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Barthelona.
NewSocialWhoDis@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
The weird ‘th’ handling of ‘c’ isn’t just a Catalan thing? Is that all of Spain? I know I’m biased as a North American, but preference for Mexican Spanish.
sanzky@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
that is why the Barthelona thing is so pedantic. In Catalan is pronounced more like “barsalona”
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 hours ago
The th pronunciation is Spanish.
In Catalan c before e or i is pronounced like a hard s.
NewSocialWhoDis@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
Oh, thanks for the clarification!
Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s the Spaniard pronunciation. Virtually everyone else would pronounce it as “see”.
Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I have no idea about ‘c’ becoming ‘th’. I was referring to the ‘t’ at the end that the above comment made ‘the’ when breaking it down, which they have mentioned in a reply was an auto-correct error.
The Spanish I know is not generally NA influenced.
NewSocialWhoDis@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Ah, I guess they had fixed the autocorrect by the time I saw it.
Apparently it is most, but not quite all, of of Spain that does the ‘th’ business: youtube.com/shorts/dxBoVaOuw4Q?is=uFdY_uC6q6AjdcD…