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| sigiloso Heptaglot Groupie Portugal Joined 6589 days ago 87 posts - 103 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2, PortugueseC1, Galician, French, Esperanto, Italian Studies: Russian, Greek | Message 1 of 5 04 June 2009 at 5:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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I could have said Modern Early English, Elizabethan or whatever. I have no problems with thous etc, but always was in doubt about for example:
cometh: do I pronounce a schwa in the middle of /m/ adn /th/ or not? , if you prefer, two syllables or just one? cause in other instances you have for instance "goeth" /goueth/, but however "doth" /duth/ -cup sound- Thank you for your help if any. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Alkeides Senior Member Bhutan Joined 5958 days ago 636 posts - 644 votes | Message 2 of 5 06 June 2009 at 3:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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Definitely with 2 syllables, with one you would sound as though you had a lisp!
Are you trying for a reconstructed Elizabethan accent though? Or just trying to speak some Elizabethan English in a modern accent? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| sigiloso Heptaglot Groupie Portugal Joined 6589 days ago 87 posts - 103 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2, PortugueseC1, Galician, French, Esperanto, Italian Studies: Russian, Greek | Message 3 of 5 08 June 2009 at 2:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you Alkeides. No, just you know, one has to pronounce something even if just reading for oneself, and of all versions and several languages, I ve made up my mind in favor of KJB. Sorry I was lazy asking here instead of listening carefully to some preacher or something. Edited by sigiloso on 08 June 2009 at 2:28pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Alkeides Senior Member Bhutan Joined 5958 days ago 636 posts - 644 votes | Message 4 of 5 08 June 2009 at 6:08pm | IP Logged | ||
Ah I see. I was just asking as reconstructed pronunciations are a special topic of interest of mine. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| JW Hexaglot Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/egw Joined 5932 days ago 1802 posts - 2011 votes 22 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Ancient Greek, French, Biblical Hebrew Studies: Luxembourgish, Dutch, Greek, Italian | Message 5 of 5 08 June 2009 at 11:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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Here is a KJV audio bible for future reference:
http://www.biblegateway.com/resources/audio/?source=1 1 person has voted this message useful |
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