americans to british people: "oh my godddd, you're british! haha oh my god, your accent is like so cute, haha, you're like from harry potter haha!"

me to americans: "say this word" *holds up a piece of card with "leicestershire" written on it*

americans: "ley-chester-shy-re?"

me: "oh my god you precious soul, here say it with me,"

@avie that one is something like /lεstəʃɚ/, right?
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@Felthry less-ter-sher

@avie oh so the first r is still pronounced? I thought BrE left those out most of the time
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@Felthry not always

its not a hard r

@Felthry i guess more accurately like

less-tuh-shuh

which is probably way different but im not great at transcribing specific speech stuff to text

@avie that one would be /lεstəʃə/
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@Felthry cursed helpful arcane runic texts, they befuddle me so

@avie it's not that difficult to learn the bits necessary for broad transcription of english at least! might be worth doing

or might not, i can't say what you'd find worthwhile
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@Felthry iiiiii would probably forget it very easily haha

@avie it was designed to be based on the latin alphabet which makes it pretty easy to remember for people who speak european languages! at least until you get to some of the things used to transcribe features that aren't in european languages, anyway
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@avie a majority of the symbols that are just latin letters are very close to how those letters sound in english, except for vowels because english vowels are a nightmare, but they still are similar enough; the e in bed is /ε/ for instance, since /e/ is already taken for roughly the sound in "bay" (which is actually a diphthong, /e/ doesn't occur on its own in english i don't think)
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@Felthry linguistics are scary oh no

@Felthry the problem with learning ipa is that i have to then deal with how hellish english is again but for the sake of learning a specific way of transcribing pronounciations that no one else really knows

@avie i'm not saying you have to! i'm just kind of infodumping a little
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@Felthry *offers an headpat or two*

@avie *has two heads to pat right now!*
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@Felthry !! double the soff

*gently petpats both heads*

@avie 💚
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