front rounded vowels are absurd. how dare they!
Oh no! You've made him cross!
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xkcd is making a vowel hypertrapezoid
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do you think IPA symbols give their girlfriends their brackets when they get cold
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Non Linguist: This sound is like the vowel in "cot"
Me: Ripping my hair out
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Welsh LGBTQIA+ Terms IPA Pronucniation:
Anneuaidd- Nonbinary /anei̯ai̯ð/
Anrhamantus- Aromantic /anr̥amantɪs/
Anrhywiol- Asexual /anr̥ɪu̯jɔl/
Cwiar- Queer /ˈkw̥ʰjar/
Cyfunrhywiol- Homosexual /ˈkəvɪnr̥ɪu̯jɔl/
Deurywiol- Bisexual /ˈdei̯r̥ɪu̯jɔl/
Hollrywiol- Pansexual /hoːɬr̥ɪu̯jɔl/
Hoyw-Gay /ˈhɔi̯.u/
Lesbiaidd- Lesbian /lɛsbi̯ai̯ð/
Rhyngryw- Intersex /r̥əŋr̥ɪu̯/
Rhyweddgwiar- Genderqueer /r̥əwɛð'gw̥ʰjar/
Trawsryweddol- Transgender /trau̯sr̥əwɛðɔl/
Following the previous post, my informal/casual transcription left too much ambiguity, so I've taken it upon myself to learn the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to help make things a lot clearer for those interested.
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3 is a common substitute for ꜣ, which is how Egyptologists romanise the Egyptian Aleph, which sounded like [ʀ] (similar to the French/German R and the Dutch G) so everytime I read stuff like ao3 and bd3 I read them like A'oRRR and BadaRRR.
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everyone wake up, new smiley just dropped
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The sound that √-ǂ makes still haunts my dreams at night
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