Re: Commonly mispronounced words
by Cedric Lynch on Dec 04, 2014 08:03 PM
None of these words is English. They are words that have been adopted by some of the English from Yiddish, Spanish, French, French and Spanish respectively and they are supposed to be pronounced as in those languages.
Re: Commonly mispronounced words
by P Unnikrishnan on Nov 20, 2014 03:02 PM
I agree with you. Some commonly used words such as morning, chaos, etc. should have been explained.
Re: rendezvous
by Cedric Lynch on Dec 04, 2014 08:05 PM
"Rendezvous" is pronounced the way it is (raandayvoo) because it is a French word and follows the pronunciation rules of that language.
Re: Re: rendezvous
by Ravi Kumar on May 29, 2014 12:01 AM
First see the question properly. He did not ask how it is pronounced but why it is pronounced so.
Re: Re: Re: Re: rendezvous
by Manajesh Bargava on May 29, 2014 10:33 AM
What are you? "Indian English professor"?... "Enlight" us what's the correct usage?
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: rendezvous
by giveanid on May 30, 2014 09:51 AM
Why upset? Look around and you'll see this is Indian English usage.. Like 'tight slap', 'roam around'...
Re: rendezvous
by Abhijit on May 29, 2014 12:54 PM
@Common Sense - This is French word, spelled using Roman Alphabets by Englishmen. So there will be some mismatch. Like 'Renaissance' - pronounce it 'ren saa'.
English in an unstructured and free language. It has no definite structure and is spoken as the people would like it to be spoken. SO there is no right or wrong pronounciation. If for example everyone decides to pronounce the words differently it will change, that is why it is so powerful since it is democratic and is unstructured. So the above definitions are foolish since if everyone decides to pronounce it in a certain way that will become a right way and there is no right or wrong way about it. If you take Hindi or tamil for example even a non native who knows how to read can never mispronounce it. English is a structurally inferior language to Hindi, tamil and all Indian languages.
Re: Unstructured Idiotic Language
by Bomb Bhole on May 28, 2014 11:41 PM
its not necessary to comment always if you are short on the subject! Dont make urself a laughing stock.
by the way it's 'pronunciation' and not as you've written or would probably pronounce!
Re: Re: Unstructured Idiotic Language
by Manajesh Bargava on May 29, 2014 10:36 AM
Pen diamond made valid points. What's that bothers you so much? When he says "structurally inferior" it is not exactly looking down on the language... Oh wait a second, English was never your first language. Your ire is understable!
Re: Re: Re: Unstructured Idiotic Language
by Manajesh Bargava on May 29, 2014 10:37 AM
understandable!! (before you come guns blazing at what's clearly a typo) :|
Re: Unstructured Idiotic Language
by Abhijit on May 29, 2014 12:59 PM
Perfectly said by 'Pen Diamond'. English become dominant language not because it is better, but because people speaking English were powerful. Earlier British, now Americans, in future Indians. Indian languages are more structured, scientific, and perfect. But we can’t anything similar about Indian people.
Re: Unstructured Idiotic Language
by Bomb Bhole on May 30, 2014 10:59 PM
u speak in this inferior language, choose a website which writes in this inferior language, u copy those in your attire who speak in this inferior language, you sell your ancestral property to go to that land, where this inferior language is spoken.
Stop being a hypocrete. Love for your country, language, countrymen cant be shown by criticising but by competing. Lets compete with those 'inferior' people to prove our supremacy!
