What if English actually SOUNDED like this??

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  @DrGeoffLindsey · 2 years ago · pinned

  Sorry this video is so late. I was setting up a Discord server! Feel free to join the conversation: <a href="https://discord.gg/XydQrYgJSD">https://discord.gg/XydQrYgJSD</a>

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  @EebstertheGreat · 2 years ago

  So English was originally written phonetically, but all the vowels shifted and now the spelling doesn&apos;t make sense. Thankfully, phoneticians came to the rescue and spelled everything phonetically again. But all the vowels shifted again and now the &quot;phonetic&quot; spelling doesn&apos;t make sense. Do we need a &quot;phonetic phonetic spelling&quot; now to account for these changes?

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  @DiddyKrung · 2 years ago

  This accent sounds so alien that none of the younger characters in Downton Abbey speak it, despite it being set in the period when it was spoken.

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  @phileo_ss · 2 years ago

  Schoolchildren in Japan are taught English pronunciation using IPA symbols, but I, having grown up in London, always felt that those symbols were somewhat wrong. So when I started giving private English lessons, that&apos;s what I told my students. Then after nearly 30 years, it is good to see things clarified by an expert.

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  @lawrencetaylor4101 · 2 years ago

  A British soldier said to his battle mate: I came here to die.<br>An Australian answered : I came here Yesterday.

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  @oravlaful · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IfbPQgec2M&amp;t=840">14:00</a> i can&apos;t believe the samples form a major arpeggio

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  @Zelmel · 2 years ago

  Ugh, this along with my young kids&apos; school assignments have reminded me how much I despise the terms &quot;long&quot; and &quot;short&quot; vowel. They&apos;re two different sounds, the fact that we represent them with the same letter doesn&apos;t change that and since you can say both of them for a short or long duration, the terms are just so unclear.

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  @teddymackerel · 2 years ago

  we learned these symbols for british english singing in my diction for singers class and they were perfect... for singing classical music

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  @roy1701d · 2 years ago

  I was watching an old show about Jack the Ripper. They were trying to use linguistics to determine if he was in fact an American named H. H. Holmes. And there you were! I was so excited to recognize you, I almost jumped out of my chair. 😀

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  @Halosty45 · 2 years ago

  I&apos;m glad you don&apos;t make many assumptions about your audiences familiarity with the phonetic alphabet, making sure to pronunce and highlight them all as they come up. Otherwise it would all look like nonsense.

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  @douglasmcclure · 2 years ago

  This channel is my dream come true! I&apos;ve loved phonetics for years — ever since I took a college course in 1978 to fulfill a speech requirement — and considered myself pretty well versed in the subject. But Dr. Geoff fearlessly delves into all those tiny details which I&apos;ve heard for years and assumed nobody else noticed. The perfectly chosen videos of public figures and the perfectly timed on-screen transcriptions must take ages to prepare. And Dr. Lindsey&apos;s sophisticated dry humor is the icing on the cake.<br>I&apos;m glad I lived long enough to see YouTube make such content available. There have always been fantastic instructors like Geoff Lindsey, but not many of us had the chance to hear them in person.

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  @MrTwarner · 2 years ago

  As someone who’s from the Great Lakes area of the US, I always love videos on English vowels. I can never relate to them because I pronounce almost all of them differently, but that’s the fun lol

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