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[-] nomnomdeplume@lemmy.world 43 points 10 months ago
[-] rooster_butt@lemm.ee 23 points 10 months ago

I feel like double u is cheating since that's just b again.

[-] Siethron@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

I'd argue 'f' they don't press hard but they lightly touch

[-] Soggy@lemmy.world 35 points 10 months ago

Bro what are you doing with your lips? "F" is top teeth on lower lip.

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

What the pfuck are you pfrattling on about?

[-] Siethron@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

My front lip is over my teeth when I say it, and it is touching the bottom lip.

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago

you can also form an /s/ with various parts of the tongue and mouth but it's generally held to be an alveolar bladal fricative.

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

That would interrupt airflow would it not?

[-] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Not if your lips just touch lightly in the middle and the air flows around the sides.

Maybe it’s a regional thing, but that’s also how I say that sound.

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Could be regional yeah. Interesting!

[-] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah - I mean, I can say an f-word like “fountain” without lowering my upper lip and (to my ears at least) it sounds almost the same if not identical, but I have to do it consciously and it feels unnatural.

[-] Siethron@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

You don't purse the lips together, they're lightly touching allowing air to go through

[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 months ago

W still leaves an opening tho

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 18 points 10 months ago

They're probably pronouncing it as "Double-U"...

[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

well it only touches at the B sound and we already had B so...

[-] bennel@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago
[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

as a phoneme, it's a bilabial approximant - meaning the lips form the sound by moving close but not touching and then parting again

compare to the palatal approixmant /y/ formed by the root of the tongue performing a similar action with the soft palate.

[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

just like in "We"

You don't pronounce "we" as "double ue" do you?

[-] Turun@feddit.de 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Like ... Have you ever read a word with w in it?

I kinda know what you are getting at - if you dictate a word by pronouncing each letter separately you need to add stuff to each one to make it stand out - but Jesus Christ, what a question.

Hodoubleu is the doublueather today? Only a fedoubleu oubleuhite clouds in a clear blue sky.

Thanks for making me laugh!

Edit: in German it is pronounced "we", with the e like in ketchup.

[-] tan00k@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

I vote we change it in English to be pronounced like in German. It always bugged me that it's the only multisyllabic letter name. Along the same lines, we should rename seven to sev.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

The time save when pronouncing "www" is incredible. 🙃

[-] Turun@feddit.de 2 points 10 months ago

I sometimes like reading or listening to stories of people scamming scammers. He used this exact thing to really confuse the scammer.

"Please type in double u double double u...."
"Alright, I typed in double u double u double..... It says page not found" (i.e. uuuuuu)

[-] Turun@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

In German y is not pronounced as "why", but instead as "Ypsilon". You win some you lose some I guess.

More infuriating is "e" - it's pronounced as "I" ffs! But when in a word only if it's the first letter or something. Otherwise it's pronounced as "e" as it rightfully should be!

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

It doesn't say "no opening", it just says "lips touch". My lips can touch without completely closing.

[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

ok but for "we" the opening is large enough for them to not touch at all

[-] harmsy@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Bruh what are you smoking? My lips don't touch for W. They don't even move half the time.

[-] lugal@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

They do for double u

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

I get 6, yours plus F and Y.

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