Submitted 2 weeks ago by sho@ani.social to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
You’ll like this poem:
The start of it:
Gerard Nolst Trenité - The Chaos (1922)
Dearest creature in creation Studying English pronunciation, I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse.
I will keep you, Susy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy; Tear in eye, your dress you’ll tear; Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer.
Nguyen ewe egg noire Gramm her.
Not gon lie, but i have no idea what this reads. I can maybe make sense of the “Gramm her” part reading as “Grammar” but not much beyond that 😅
Nguyen (a Korean name that is common in America pronounced like “when”)
Ewe (female sheep, pronounced like “you”)
egg (egg only because it sounds a little lile “ig-” )
noire (french for the color black, sometimes used in English, pronounced like “-nore”)
Egg-noire (ignore)
Gramm her (grammar)
So with our sentences together it would be: “In English there are no rules, when you ignore grammar.”
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I like what you did there, and I get it, but, I don’t hear “are” when I see our, I hear “hour”.
Now I’m just curious which is more common.
nogooduser@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We would definitely pronounce our as “are” in some cases., usually when referring to a person. “Our kid” or “Our Jack” would have been pronounced “are”.
robolemmy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Must be a regional thing because for me “our” always sounds like “hour” no matter what