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| maucca Diglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4433 days ago 33 posts - 64 votes  Speaks: Finnish*, English Studies: French | Message 17 of 32 08 January 2014 at 10:30pm | IP Logged | |||||
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@Hungringo,
I totally agree, French pronunciation is fairly regular compared to English. But to compensate for the high degree of correspondence between spelling and pronunciation, French has other difficulties. Some sound sequences can be quite challenging to produce, and then there are the liaisons, of course. And there are many words with pronunciations which can't be deduced (at least not by me): revolver, fille : ville, innavigable. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6379 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 18 of 32 09 January 2014 at 11:48am | IP Logged | |||||
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| schoenewaelder Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5342 days ago 759 posts - 1197 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 19 of 32 09 January 2014 at 4:39pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I wasn't planning on using it as a term of abuse, if that's what you were thinking, but "whore" seems to have been a fairly standard term for prostitute in literature, up to about 50 years or so ago anyway. If you wrote about "drinking and whoring" these days, it would probably be seedy, brutal, miserablist, but they seem to have treated it much more lightly in the old days.
Even today, it seems to me a much more neutral word when used in literature, than when spoken out loud, although that could just be my inhibition again. [edit to add] "Prostitute" is a funny word in English. It is only used in a detached style, so you can use it in the narrative, but the characters have to use a more colloquial word. I guess the modern equivalent of "whore" would be "hooker". Or is it "whooker"? you don't see it in print very often. Edited by schoenewaelder on 09 January 2014 at 5:28pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4489 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 20 of 32 09 January 2014 at 4:49pm | IP Logged | |||||
Because as a Dutch speaker, I colloquially tack it onto the end of every sentence :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6987 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 21 of 32 10 January 2014 at 1:40am | IP Logged | |||||
Prostitute is someone who does it for money. Hooker is less offensive than whore. A hooker also does it for money. A whore might just be someone who sleeps around. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Einarr Tetraglot Senior Member United Kingdom einarrslanguagelog.w Joined 4395 days ago 118 posts - 269 votes Speaks: English, Bulgarian*, French, Russian Studies: Swedish | Message 22 of 32 10 January 2014 at 3:33am | IP Logged | |||||
One more over here. :D I virtually spend a gazillion hours per day listening to Russian alone, apart from that do my other activities, like reading and writing meanwhile. Аnd just because I have nobody to speak to in Russian, I always wonder if I won't simply go mute when I'd like a dialogue to evolve. And I'm not speaking about a written dialogue on line, because I've got this one covered to a certain extent. There you can sit back and think over what you write, rather a live one when pauses would be inappropriate. P.S.: French pronunciation is indeed way more regular in my humble opinion as well. I really find it rather easy reading a non - familiar text in French, whereas in Russian I can easily mispronounce a certain word, bearing in mind that my reading comprehension in both is fairly equal. Edited by Einarr on 10 January 2014 at 3:49am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6379 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 23 of 32 10 January 2014 at 5:28am | IP Logged | |||||
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| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6987 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 24 of 32 10 January 2014 at 9:12am | IP Logged | |||||
The word can be used without female connotations. For instance, a comedy "Deuce Bigalo, Male Gigalo", used the phrase "man whore" a lot. Used as a verb, the word is fairly gender neutral. A similar word that I've only heard used to describe a man is "womanizer". 1 person has voted this message useful |
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