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| egill Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5506 days ago 418 posts - 791 votes  Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 33 of 34 22 December 2010 at 11:48pm | IP Logged | |||||
Actually I shouldn't have said silent, silent implies that it's written and not pronounced. In this case 'h' hasn't even been part of the word, written or otherwise, for a a long time in English. If you still feel that way, maybe we should just replace English wholesale with Latin instead, none of this weak half way stuff! Edited by egill on 22 December 2010 at 11:49pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| kottoler.ello Tetraglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5813 days ago 128 posts - 192 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Mandarin, French Studies: Japanese, German | Message 34 of 34 28 December 2010 at 9:38pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I do this with Swedish words as the accent isn't awfully different from English, at least it doesn't feel awfully different in my mouth. Maybe also because Swedes mix so much English into their Swedish.
Here's a good example from one of my favorite Swedish rappers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcxrIWK83s4 One of the lines is "Stava Zackarias med S/ nä aldrig att jag gör det/ jag tycker det ser lite GAY ut/ ah du HEARD" The translation is in the video, but the funny part is that he uses the English word "gay," and then instead of rhyming "gör det" with "hörde" as you expect him to, he uses the English word "heard" which means the same thing and sounds as if you pronounced "hörde" with a very strong American accent and dropped off the second syllable, making the line hit harder. Multilingual, musical wordplay. You now understand why I love Swedish rap so much. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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