tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13909078.post3891818327304357455..comments2023-04-26T10:27:09.471-04:00Comments on ok, fine, I do like blogging: pronuncificationUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13909078.post-79015876865563615332007-05-18T14:57:00.000-04:002007-05-18T14:57:00.000-04:00Basso, thank you! Those phrases aren't in the song...Basso, thank you! Those phrases aren't in the song - it was an unrelated question that came to mind. I had no idea there was a difference in the T's. Dang. French. In Japanese, you know, you pronounce everything.towwashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14114892350923262185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13909078.post-28456659651788325212007-05-18T14:43:00.000-04:002007-05-18T14:43:00.000-04:00ils sont = eel sont (leave a bit "t" but cut off)i...ils sont = eel sont (leave a bit "t" but cut off)<BR/><BR/>ils ont = eel zon (drop the "t" more nasal)<BR/><BR/>..but it is singing, buy the time you sing it, it's gone and run into the next...enjoy the musicBASSOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17279240514830314319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13909078.post-35332783195585865052007-05-17T18:09:00.000-04:002007-05-17T18:09:00.000-04:00J Po's wrong. I'm not going to tell you why or ho...J Po's wrong. I'm not going to tell you why or how.J.Brohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02605088096838923241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13909078.post-25295281101461522062007-05-17T14:17:00.000-04:002007-05-17T14:17:00.000-04:00Sophist's z/s distinction is what I learned in Fre...Sophist's z/s distinction is what I learned in French class, I seem to remember.Coloradanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06790431062401217058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13909078.post-71909836411255126282007-05-17T13:00:00.000-04:002007-05-17T13:00:00.000-04:00My take: the 's' in 'Ils' isn't pronounced...but t...My take: the 's' in 'Ils' isn't pronounced...but the 's' in 'sont' is. But when the two words are spoken in succession, it's hard to tell where the 's' is coming from. When a word ending in 's' is followed by a word starting with a vowel, the 's' usually runs over (with a zzz sound, as Sophist said), but not always.J.Pohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10970096100605492061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13909078.post-48479449542194772732007-05-17T12:38:00.000-04:002007-05-17T12:38:00.000-04:00Yeah, my one year of Spanish - where the pronounci...Yeah, my one year of Spanish - where the pronounciation is pretty clear - was one zillion times easier for me than French despite the fact that I can't roll my r's worth a darn. I can read French pretty well, but the fact that my high-school French teachers never spoke French to us nor made us speak French kinda limited my development on those fronts! It all sounds like 'euh' and 'ehr' and 'zzz' and 'juh' to me.Stacey Pelikahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16053009077800388375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13909078.post-702724918041499382007-05-17T03:21:00.000-04:002007-05-17T03:21:00.000-04:00I think Ils ont is more of a ZZZZ sound, whereas I...I think Ils ont is more of a ZZZZ sound, whereas Ils sont is more of an sssss sound (or ß for you Germaney peeps).Anniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11022249185366808788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13909078.post-76017971335776496292007-05-16T23:25:00.000-04:002007-05-16T23:25:00.000-04:00Yeah, a dude I know who studied French in France s...Yeah, a dude I know who studied French in France said reading comprehension is a huge part of [some exam he had to take at the Sorbonne] - you have to really know your grammar, because everything sounds exactly the same. But I just wondered if there was a zzz/ssss difference here, or if those really sound exactly the same. <BR/><BR/>Confusing darn language. German is fun, Spice! Maybe in your next life.towwashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14114892350923262185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13909078.post-57833860549223821082007-05-16T23:16:00.000-04:002007-05-16T23:16:00.000-04:00I don't think there's any discernible difference t...I don't think there's any discernible difference there, but someone who's French is better than mine might disagree. Almost everything is run together in French, which I think is why I was never very good at speaking/understanding it. I should have taken German. Seriously.Stacey Pelikahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16053009077800388375noreply@blogger.com