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[Opinions] No, it isn't (m)

by Calla (guest)

2/5/2013, 6:04 PM

in reply to a message by lovewn

DAHN sounds nothing like Dawn. I think this is all about accents.

Dawn has that "aw" sound. Like the word "awe" or when someone thinks something is cute and they say "aw". That'd Dawn.

DAHN is nothing like that.

Again, accents...

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- Ludwig (blaaarg) +5

2/6/2013, 2:09 PM

Dude, you can't just say "No it isn't, Dahn sounds nothing like Dawn." For someone like me, Dahn and Dawn do sound exactly alike. Yeah, it's an accent difference, - not an objective one. To me, Dahn and Dawn are literally the same.

- Calla (guest) +2

2/6/2013, 3:13 PM

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.

- Ludwig (blaaarg) +1

2/6/2013, 4:13 PM

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.

- Calla (guest)

2/6/2013, 8:19 PM

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. :)

- Phoebe (Kate) +1

2/6/2013, 2:53 PM

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.

- Calla (guest)

2/6/2013, 3:14 PM

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.

- Ismene (Madyson) +1

2/6/2013, 7:54 AM

Well since overtheclouds already mentioned that 'AW' and 'AH' are exactly the same in her accent, "dahn" and "dawn" WOULD sound alike (as they do in my accent as well, unless I make a conscious effort to differentiate).

- Calla (guest)

2/6/2013, 3:11 PM

Really? DAHN and Dawn sound nothing alike in mine.

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