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SPN: Do Saber and Comer rhyme?
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24 September 2010 at 10:15pm | IP Logged

global_gizzy wrote:

However, even in my best Spanish pronounciation, I can't hear a rhyme here.
To me, saying that Saber and Comer rhyme is like saying
Veterinarian and Historian rhyme because they have the same ending sound. "rian"

It's nothing like that. Highlighting the stressed vowel (by Spanish convention gives:
Veterinárian and histórian

Eliminating everything before the stressed vowel leaves:
árian and órian

These are different.

There was a sergeant, in command,
Whose orders I could not understand.
He gave us leave, we cried "Hooray!
We're off to drink in town today!"

That's a rhyme, right? Even though in both couplets it's only the final vowel and subsequent phonemes or a polysyllabic word that match.

As I said, stressed vowel and everything after, nothing before.
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24 September 2010 at 11:20pm | IP Logged

Hambre y vocación, riman a la perfección.
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27 September 2010 at 7:28am | IP Logged

global_gizzy wrote:

To me, saying that Saber and Comer rhyme is like saying
Veterinarian and Historian rhyme because they have the same ending sound. "rian"

No. "Veterinarian" and "historian" have a different vowel in their stressed syllables ("narian" and "torian"). "Saber" and "comer" do not ("ber" and "mer"). It's not that the ending syllables match; it's that the stressed syllables match and any following syllables (though in "saber" and "comer" there are no following syllables).

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