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Help[Opinions] Re: Dante
in reply to a message by overtheclouds
I've never heard it pronounced DAN-tay. Everyone I know pronounces it DAHN-tay.
It's okay. I thought it was really cool for an evil character when I was younger but now all I really think about is Dante's Inferno.
It's okay. I thought it was really cool for an evil character when I was younger but now all I really think about is Dante's Inferno.
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No
Dawn sounds just like it looks. Like lawn and fawn.
DAHN is not like Dan. DAHN is longer sounding. I don't know how else to say it other than DAHN. Okay, you know the word entourage? The sound the 'en' makes at the beginning? That's what the 'ahn' sounds like in DAHN.
Best way to put it... heh.
AH and AW sound nothing alike in my accent.
Dawn sounds just like it looks. Like lawn and fawn.
DAHN is not like Dan. DAHN is longer sounding. I don't know how else to say it other than DAHN. Okay, you know the word entourage? The sound the 'en' makes at the beginning? That's what the 'ahn' sounds like in DAHN.
Best way to put it... heh.
AH and AW sound nothing alike in my accent.
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It's called the cot-caught merger: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_English_low_back_vowels#Cot.E2.80.93caught_merger
They sound identical to me, too, which makes sense since I'm from the western US.
They sound identical to me, too, which makes sense since I'm from the western US.
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Interesting...
...thanks for that. We don't have the father-brother merger but we do have a fairly recent trend among young people to use "bra" rather than "bro" as short for brother.
...thanks for that. We don't have the father-brother merger but we do have a fairly recent trend among young people to use "bra" rather than "bro" as short for brother.
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Exactly. It depends on where you live. I spent a portion of my life in north eastern US and that explains why I think they sound so different. Some people just crazy uppity over it.
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Same here. I crack up when people spell names with "aw" to try to ensure it's pronounced with an "ah" sound, because in my accent it's very much "AWWWWWWWW."
Short A in my accent is very nasally, so there's a noticeable difference between how I'd say Dan and how the first syllable in Dante is pronounced in Italian.
Short A in my accent is very nasally, so there's a noticeable difference between how I'd say Dan and how the first syllable in Dante is pronounced in Italian.
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Exactly.
It's like the Shawn/Sean debacle!
It's like the Shawn/Sean debacle!
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Yes DAHN is like dawn and that is the only way I have ever heard Dante pronounced. I like Dante alright. I would think it very strange to heard someone pronounce it DAN-tey (not to say I don't believe that it is a valid pronunciation, just very unfamiliar) but probably wouldn't think too much about meeting a Dante pronounced DAHN-tey
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Ha, I can say that. I said it sounds like that in my accent. It's fine if it sounds the same to you, but I'm saying they don't to me and the people I'm around.
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I guess my issue was that you didn't qualify it by saying "in my accent." You presented it like it was a universal truth. Even though the implication was there, it still bothers me to no end. I don't know why this kind of stuff bothers me so much... I think I'm getting better about it. In high school I refused to join the facebook fan club of my spanish teacher, called "Sr. Lastname is the greatest thing to happen to the spanish language," because I simply didn't agree with the title even though I really liked him.
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I get it. But I had written "in my accent" in all my other postings so it must have just slipped my mind/sounded too repetitive in my mind. I must confess I don't spend a large amount of time or brain power on my posts and sometimes things get left out. :)
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I totally agree
I was just coming on here to say this, but Ludwig beat me to it.
Dahn, Dawn, and Don sound exactly the same in my accent. I couldn't pronounce them differently even if I wanted to.
I was just coming on here to say this, but Ludwig beat me to it.
Dahn, Dawn, and Don sound exactly the same in my accent. I couldn't pronounce them differently even if I wanted to.
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I noticed on a show where I thought a girl was named Don for the longest time (I assumed it was short for Donielle or something equally horrible) but it turned out the actors were saying Dawn. But it sounded nothing like how I say Dawn. A lot of viewers didn't know, either. Accents are funny things.
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