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ItalianGirl Posted 20 years ago
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if some words are pronounced the same...
Hello,
if some words are pronounced the same, for instance meet/meat how can you understand which is the word that one is saying?
and I have the impression that there is no difference beetwen words like post/boss. I hear that an Irish could pronounciate them the same
if some words are pronounced the same, for instance meet/meat how can you understand which is the word that one is saying?
and I have the impression that there is no difference beetwen words like post/boss. I hear that an Irish could pronounciate them the same
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If two words are pronounced the same, you don't know which is intended unless you hear it in context. People don't normally just say one word and stop, so it's not a problem. I don't know about the Irish, but where I live there is a big difference between post and boss (in pronunciation).
- If two words are pronounced the same, you don't know which is intended unless you hear it in context.
- People don't normally just say one word and stop, so it's not a problem.
- I don't know about the Irish, but where I live there is a big difference between post and boss (in pronunciation).
- ) CJ
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If two words are pronounced the same, you don't know which is intended unless you hear it in context.
People don't normally just say one word and stop, so it's not a problem.
People don't normally just say one word and stop, so it's not a problem.
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lol I swear that an Irish guy yesterday asked me: - Where's the boss? - and I understood that he was saying 'the post' so I asked him and he repeated it four times, then he said: - your capo - and finally I understood him! Am I deaf?
I know that in USA, most of all in California, boss and post are pronounced in a very different way.
I know that in USA, most of all in California, boss and post are pronounced in a very different way.
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I doubt very much that you are deaf!
I found myself in the same kind of trouble once when trying to communicate with a man from Brooklyn! No amount of repeating helped. And we were both "native speakers of English"!
CJ
I found myself in the same kind of trouble once when trying to communicate with a man from Brooklyn! No amount of repeating helped. And we were both "native speakers of English"!
CJ
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Don't worry. In my first job I worked with an Irishman and we had great difficulty in understanding each other. He never learned to say my name (and it's a normal English name) right as it starts with an F and he would start with a V sound.
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When I was in Scotland I had a hard time understanding what people there were saying and that worried me a great deal until I talked to a Scot who told me that they don't even understand one another
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