• teft@startrek.website
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    11 months ago

    Me gustan los memes españoles.

    Also just so you guys know meme is pronounced may-may in spanish. Makes me laugh every time I hear one of my friends say it in spanish.

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      11 months ago

      Also just so you guys know meme is pronounced may-may in spanish.

      It’s more like meh-meh, our vowels don’t have additional sounds.

      For more accurate pronunciation you can think of Spanish vowels as if they had an ‘h’ at the end.

      Ah

      Eh

      Ih

      Oh

      Uh

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        11 months ago

        Adding the H to some of these letters wouldn’t give the right sound for native english speakers. I would transcribe these vowels using american english like so:

        A = ah : rhymes with ma

        E = ay : rhymes with hey

        I = ee : rhymes with tree

        O = oh : rhymes with blow

        U = oo : rhymes with shoe

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          11 months ago

          It looks like there might be a slight misunderstanding, “e” is pronounced as the e in “metal”, “test”, “wrench”.

          We do not use a different sound for it, and it does not rhyme with hey at all :D

          Adding the H to some of these letters wouldn’t give the right sound for native english speakers

          I think the only one that could be tricky would be the “uh” since it could be confused with the interjection “uhhh”, but as you mentioned, it is indeed pronounced as “oo”.

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            11 months ago

            Perhaps it’s just dialectal differences. I live in colombia and what I hear daily is an e sound that rhymes with hey, hay, or may.

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      11 months ago

      Also just so you guys know meme is pronounced may-may in spanish

      Why do y’all anglophones enjoy making language more complicated than it needs to be? Does it bring you joy to provoke suffering to the world?

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      11 months ago

      I heard a dude pronounce meme ‘mee mee’ once like 10 years ago, and that created a core memory for me for some reason.