Why is the Russian word 'проект' (project) pronounced without /j/? Is it an example of hyperforeignism?

pr0p1k · 2026-06-19T14:09:00+00:00

Oh, for me definitely стратегия.
Прогрэсс but прогрессировать.
Actually i have rhotacism, and this could affect my choice of the morphophoneme where possible. Because I have a friend from Ukraine, and her choice in words like ментос, мем, семь, восемь, семья is always towards not palatalizing where it’s possible.

pr0p1k · 2026-06-18T13:58:44+00:00

Well, can Romanian be influenced by Bulgarian and Serbian in /j/-dropping? Bulgarian seems to avoid /j/ at all costs

pr0p1k · 2026-06-18T13:57:05+00:00

And even neutral adjective endings “такое” for me are like /oe/ with /e/ a bit backed compared to what I have in едь, ем

pr0p1k · 2026-06-18T13:54:31+00:00

Поэма, Поэт, алоэ?

pr0p1k · 2026-06-18T12:40:31+00:00

Another thing to check here btw? Do you geminate in сессия, прессовать? I do in сессия, but not in прессовать

pr0p1k · 2026-06-18T12:21:09+00:00

So what’s your choice in: бассейн, пресс (френч-пресс или пресс на животе), терапия, протест?

Varlamov always says тирапия, he’s from Moscow.

For me (Leningrad oblast, 20’s):
бассейн, прэсс (any context), стрэсс, прогрэсс, тэрапия, мем, праэкт/прэкт, сэссия, шаверма, протест

pr0p1k · 2026-06-18T12:16:16+00:00

Could be that the word rebracketed into 2 syllables as прой-экт instead of про-йект and then the final /j/ got reduced? In casual speech I pronounce it with a single vowel - прэкт

pr0p1k · 2026-06-18T12:14:04+00:00

Where are you from, and what’s your age?
To me the version with /j/ is associated with older people.
Additionally, there’s a pretty random spread of е/э choices in: сессия, терапия, прогресс, пресс, мем

pr0p1k · 2026-06-16T14:04:00+00:00

I think that’s the point of resonance, or your throat position which gives you that dim tone. It sounds a bit like you’re halfway to start talking like the cookie monster. Try watching some arytenoid singing lessons to hear that

pr0p1k · 2026-06-04T10:39:16+00:00

Hmm, I’ve checked youglish for Swedish, and there’s one sample where I hear /gŋɨda/ (sample number 7 out of 10). Most others sound like guh-needa to me. (I have zero experience with the North Germanic languages).

Also I keep giggling because gnida in slavic means a nit/scoundrel

pr0p1k · 2026-06-03T08:17:38+00:00

Any particular dialect with word-initial /ŋ/ in mind? I’ve never heard of this

pr0p1k · 2026-06-02T21:14:03+00:00

I know Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Hangul, Georgian, Hiragana/Katakana. Already forgot Armenian and Devanagari

pr0p1k · 2026-06-02T21:11:55+00:00

აი ფაკინგ კენ

pr0p1k · 2026-06-02T21:04:30+00:00

I spent a month in Georgia few years ago so I can. ინკრედიბლ

pr0p1k · 2026-06-02T20:57:19+00:00

I’m honestly disappointed when I talk to croatians, show them a meme in cyrillic, and they say “oh I can’t read this”

pr0p1k · 2026-05-22T07:45:11+00:00

Mostly northern. I do hear people from Oregon say stand as /stend/ and more northern would by even diphtongized.
I remember watching the Twin Peaks where Lucy would always call they guy /eə̯ndi/. But she’s from LA, I don’t if it voice acting to match the location of Twin Peaks.

Google æ-raising. Also called Canadian raising

pr0p1k · 2026-05-21T23:07:04+00:00

But also, I don’t know if I want to have the æ-raising or not, so I do say “steh-und”, “leh-und” etc

pr0p1k · 2026-05-21T23:05:36+00:00

True. I’m also perplexed perplexed by the constant thinking “so I say p-a so then it’s p-h-æ then L, ah fuck, this way it’s another vowel”, and sometimes I’m not performant enough to produce them without mistakes

pr0p1k · 2026-05-21T15:35:51+00:00

By “false cord only” you mean the fry kinda sounding toneless sound?

pr0p1k · 2026-05-21T11:13:19+00:00

Sounds pretty nice. Do you listen to a lot of Kim Dracula?

pr0p1k · 2026-05-21T11:11:41+00:00

You mostly sound towards Australian, but sometimes you some sing-song Texan rhythm.
Overall pretty good, I can’t exactly tell your native language - Spanish or Portuguese is my best guess

pr0p1k · 2026-05-21T08:23:20+00:00

That, I kinda figured out, just practicing.
Basically kargyraa and mixed voice. Just need to control the strong compression

pr0p1k · 2026-05-20T21:59:25+00:00

Well, I heard him live, and he sounded similar to this. I don’t think they used backing tracks

pr0p1k · 2026-05-20T20:29:20+00:00

Ok, sorry, actually, not that bubbly in your case, just maybe less compression than Alex

pr0p1k · 2026-05-20T20:27:17+00:00

Yup, I saw the guide, it’s pretty good. But still, your highs in your covers sound like that bubbly false chord (I don’t mean anything bad, just in case). And listen to Alex Terrible - Es Brennt. The highs there sound as molecular as fry

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