'phonetic' grumble
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beccaelizabethPlease stop typing people's accents.
The things you think sound weird are perfectly normal ways of speaking, round their way, and your idea of 'phonetic' transcription says more about your way of speaking than theirs.
If we're all English speakers then these here typing words we use are the right way of typing their words too, and they think you sound funny.
... this grumble brought to you by a Brit kind of baffled by what Americans think we sound like.
At best it comes out sounding classist and... what's the word for thinking one region is more best, like the way some people think of Britain as a hierarchy with England on top, and south more better than north?
Because that's an annoying thought, everywhere is the UK together.
Also frequently racist.
The only justification I've heard that kind of made sense was when someone's character had multiple personalities and they were trying to distinguish between them, but if it's clearly audible who is who then you just, you know, type 'x said' and 'y said' like usual, even if they said it with the same mouth. No one I've seen tries to type out the goa'uld voice with the flanging. And there's not a rush to transcribe certain vampires' early problems with their fangs. You just say when they change. Simples.
Everyone has an accent. We all agreed to type the words just the same ways.
/grumbles
I read this exact point made better and with less grumphing and more interesting linguistics, but I can't remember where. They were describing all the phonetically and syntactically weird features of the way someone talked and it just sounded like London to me. Well, London on the TV. I'm in Norfolk, not much similar.
Interesting word choices convey much more than messing with the spelling.
The things you think sound weird are perfectly normal ways of speaking, round their way, and your idea of 'phonetic' transcription says more about your way of speaking than theirs.
If we're all English speakers then these here typing words we use are the right way of typing their words too, and they think you sound funny.
... this grumble brought to you by a Brit kind of baffled by what Americans think we sound like.
At best it comes out sounding classist and... what's the word for thinking one region is more best, like the way some people think of Britain as a hierarchy with England on top, and south more better than north?
Because that's an annoying thought, everywhere is the UK together.
Also frequently racist.
The only justification I've heard that kind of made sense was when someone's character had multiple personalities and they were trying to distinguish between them, but if it's clearly audible who is who then you just, you know, type 'x said' and 'y said' like usual, even if they said it with the same mouth. No one I've seen tries to type out the goa'uld voice with the flanging. And there's not a rush to transcribe certain vampires' early problems with their fangs. You just say when they change. Simples.
Everyone has an accent. We all agreed to type the words just the same ways.
/grumbles
I read this exact point made better and with less grumphing and more interesting linguistics, but I can't remember where. They were describing all the phonetically and syntactically weird features of the way someone talked and it just sounded like London to me. Well, London on the TV. I'm in Norfolk, not much similar.
Interesting word choices convey much more than messing with the spelling.
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Date: 2015-05-03 12:33 am (UTC)Typing out pronunciation differences is just annoying.
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Date: 2015-05-03 08:46 am (UTC)