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NL888 Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Is it acceptable that I pronounce Chávez as /tʃəvez/?
Wiki's is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez
Dunno how to pronounce /t?aßes/
Context:
Born into a working-class family in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabaneta,_Barinas, Chávez became a career military officer, and after becoming dissatisfied with the Venezuelan political system, he founded the secretive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Bolivarian_Movement-200 (MBR-200) in the early 1980s to work towards overthrowing it. Chávez led the MBR-200 in an unsuccessful http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_coup_attempts_of_1992 against the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Action government of President http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Andr%C3%A9s_P%C3%A9rez government in 1992, for which he was
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez
Dunno how to pronounce /t?aßes/
Context:
Born into a working-class family in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabaneta,_Barinas, Chávez became a career military officer, and after becoming dissatisfied with the Venezuelan political system, he founded the secretive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Bolivarian_Movement-200 (MBR-200) in the early 1980s to work towards overthrowing it. Chávez led the MBR-200 in an unsuccessful http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_coup_attempts_of_1992 against the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Action government of President http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Andr%C3%A9s_P%C3%A9rez government in 1992, for which he was
Top answer
s/. aßes/ is the Venezuelan or Hispano-American version. We should wait for CJ, since he is the Spanish expert.
- s/.
- aßes/ is the Venezuelan or Hispano-American version.
- We should wait for CJ, since he is the Spanish expert.
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This is how I learned it: /t?æv?z/ or /t?a:v?s/. I would guess that /t?aßes/ is the Venezuelan or Hispano-American version.
We should wait for CJ, since he is the Spanish expert.
We should wait for CJ, since he is the Spanish expert.
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