Comment on How did people refer to clockwise movement before the invention of the clock?

• idiomaddict@feddit.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Is there a large perceptible pronunciation difference? Because if not med and mot being opposites seems like it’s rife for sitcom hijinks

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  • kamiheku@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    There is, yeah, /meːd/ and /muːt/

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    • idiomaddict@feddit.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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      • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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