Comment on How did people refer to clockwise movement before the invention of the clock?
loke@fedia.io 1 year agoIn Swedish it's called medsols and motsols. The iteral translation is with the sun and against the sun.
Comment on How did people refer to clockwise movement before the invention of the clock?
loke@fedia.io 1 year agoIn Swedish it's called medsols and motsols. The iteral translation is with the sun and against the sun.
idiomaddict@feddit.de 1 year ago
Is there a large perceptible pronunciation difference? Because if not med and mot being opposites seems like it’s rife for sitcom hijinks
kamiheku@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
There is, yeah, /meːd/ and /muːt/
idiomaddict@feddit.de 1 year ago
Thank you! That makes sense, I forgot north Germanic languages don’t do final devoicing. In German, the d would be pronounced as /t/ in that position.
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
You rarely hear voiced plosives in spoken German in general. Negative VOTs are virtually unheard of. The distinction would be more accurate if described as aspirated/unaspirated than unvoiced/voiced.
I guess what I wanna say is that German 'd’s are most likely gonna be realized as /t/, no matter where they occur in the utterance.