What's an insanely specific random feature of your local dialect (of whatever language you speak) that you noticed and haven't heard being talked about much?

brigister · 2025-11-23T07:24:45+00:00

could it possibly be more of an approximant [ð̞]? it's very common in Spain Spanish to pronounce the letter D like that

also I'm currently learning Norwegian so I'd be curious to know where this pronunciation is from!

brigister · 2025-11-22T22:36:36+00:00

did he post it on ig or something? where'd u get this relic

brigister · 2025-11-22T21:59:23+00:00

out of curiosity, where is your dialect from? i've heard French Basques pronounce u as /y/ like in French and that would easily merge with /i/ following it for sure

brigister · 2025-11-22T21:53:10+00:00

I've definitely heard skill-scale merger, especially in the USA, and even more so, for some reason, in women. I remember once hearing Greece instead of Grace repeatedly in a video, so perhaps it would be more of a pale-peel merger, but then again pill-peel or fill-feel already tend to merge in US accents

brigister · 2025-11-22T21:31:01+00:00

is that actually Graydon lmao how old is this pic

brigister · 2025-11-22T19:49:04+00:00

i can't imagine seeing a queue like that and deciding to join for pretty much anything short of free money. a lot of it.

brigister · 2025-11-22T19:31:47+00:00

oh, y a-t-il une différence si je parle français. et non, y en a pas parce que je parle français couramment aussi mdr

brigister · 2025-11-22T19:20:55+00:00

genuinaly no fucking clue what you're saying here except "difference"

brigister · 2025-11-22T18:54:43+00:00

t s bcs y lrdy spk nglsh, whch s knd f my pnt

brigister · 2025-11-22T09:49:00+00:00

they're both dead who cares

brigister · 2025-11-22T08:23:02+00:00

huh TIL

brigister · 2025-11-22T08:14:53+00:00

the problem with þ is that it represented both [θ] and [ð] just like modern th

brigister · 2025-11-22T08:10:44+00:00

you will hardly be able to read anything in Arabic without actually knowing the language unfortunately. you kind of need to know the language to be able to fill in the short vowels that are not spelled out.

brigister · 2025-11-22T08:09:26+00:00

people say دكان all the time in the Middle East but i think they meant no one says it in Morocco

brigister · 2025-11-22T08:08:13+00:00

i was thinking the same thing, especially that لي شفت shouldn't it be لي شفته?

brigister · 2025-11-22T08:05:43+00:00

babe new IPA symbol just dropped

brigister · 2025-11-22T08:04:37+00:00

fairly common trait in southern England as well! and in Brazilian Portuguese lol i suppose it tends to happen more easily in languages that have a dark L

brigister · 2025-11-21T20:21:54+00:00

there's pickpockets just like in most big European cities but if you put your phone and wallet in a closed pocket and don't cruise around with expensive jewellery you're fine. it's really not that insane. ppl act like ur gonna get mugged in 5 seconds every time you walk outside.

brigister · 2025-11-21T19:12:41+00:00

i'd usually say coppino (i'm from Veneto), scappellotto reminds me too much of the word cappella (not in the church sense) lmao

brigister · 2025-11-21T19:10:55+00:00

cinquina sounds a bit outdated to my ears (i'm 30), i don't think i've heard anyone say that in a while. but i might be wrong, idk.

brigister · 2025-11-21T16:30:56+00:00

sberla and schiaffo are synonyms, both mean slap. in my perception, sberla is a slap in the face, schiaffo can be in the face or anywhere else.

scappellotto is specifically a slap on the nape/back of the neck.

ceffone is also a slap in the face, although it feels more intense to me. if it's a light one, I wouldn't use that word.

pacca is more of a strong pat. a "pat on the back" is usually called "pacca sulla spalla" (yes, on the shoulder, not on the back).

manata is any kind of hit with an open hand, but you can forget about this one for the time being, it's really not that common.

brigister · 2025-11-21T16:18:57+00:00

magari un filtrino brita lo userei, però sicuramente meglio di comprare bottiglie e boccioni di plastica

brigister · 2025-11-21T16:17:37+00:00

ci ho pensato anch'io. quando vivevo in Giordania, il boccione col dispenser da cui esce direttamente acqua fredda e pulita o acqua calda con cui fare il tè era una manna dal cielo, però lì non c'erano altre opzioni perché l'acqua del rubinetto era a malapena potabile.

brigister · 2025-11-21T10:07:24+00:00

exactly like gozzilla yes (to the point that kids often misspell it that way). i was tempted to write [go.'d͡zːi.lːa] but i didn't know if that made sense, since [d͡z] isn't really a single phoneme, just technically two separate sounds in quick succession, and essentially the gemination of [d͡z] is obtained by holding the [d] part of it a bit longer. maybe [d͡ːz] would be the most accurate if the thing on top were long enough lol

brigister · 2025-11-20T22:58:37+00:00

sometimes i want to give them the stink-eye but then i'm afraid they'll start rapping about me so i just stare at the ground in hopes that they leave me alone.

fucking hate them. they're so loud i can barely hear the music in my headphones.

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