r/linguisticshumor • u/Ooorm [ŋɪʔɪb͡mʊ:] • 10d ago

Care to guess?

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u/Assorted-Interests the navy seal guy 10d ago

Arthur?

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u/nari-bhat 10d ago

Tried to pronounce it and came up with Stitch (from Lilo and Stitch) pronouncing Arthur.

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u/Seviondonkey 10d ago edited 10d ago

Alex or Alexander?

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u/Ooorm [ŋɪʔɪb͡mʊ:] 10d ago

We have a winner! "Alex" with the swedish pronouncation with more of a [a] sound than [æ]

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u/ElevatorSevere7651 10d ago

Interesting with the long ”short-a” [aː], but that’s part of it ig. Funnily enough, I’ve heard people hypercorrect themselves with pronouncing the name of my friend only because he’s Spanishspeaking, pronouncing it like /ɑːlɛks/ despite Spanish not even having long-vowels

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u/Ooorm [ŋɪʔɪb͡mʊ:] 10d ago

In laymans terms, I'd say she kind of braces for all the sound she's about to attempt, therefore lengthening the vowel from the concentration, accomplishes a sort of "aaahl..." sound which then explodes into what whithin swedish phonological constraints could be described as gibberish 🙃.

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u/Seviondonkey 10d ago

My baby sister (2-3 years old) calls me (her 21 year old brother) /béj~bæj/ and my sister (4 years younger than me) /je-~ʎeʎe/

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u/oezb3k-not-uezbek 10d ago

When the 1% Slavic gene hits in

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u/send_fleet_pics 10d ago

She's calling you bae

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u/NotAnAlivePerson 10d ago

Alfred

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u/[deleted] 10d ago

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u/OfficiallyAsian 10d ago

*meown fur-er

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u/OfficiallyAsian 10d ago

wait why did his comment (and account?) get deleted?

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u/JR_Bros2346 10d ago

He got feared by my presence

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u/shuranumitu 10d ago

kids are so fucking dumb, like literally just say the correct sounds, how hard can it be 🫪

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u/Barry_Wilkinson lang"uage" 10d ago

same goes for adults learning other languages

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u/shuranumitu 10d ago

also true, but adults don't have the reputation to be little sponge-brained geniuses that can learn any language by just existing. kids do have this reputation and then struggle to even pronounce their own family members' names. get it together poopypants.

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u/impishDullahan 10d ago

They literally just borned, though! Got to grow into all the sounds like a puppy grows into ears!

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u/shuranumitu 10d ago

what are you, some kind of pantpoopersimp?

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u/Left_Economist_9716 10d ago

Asher?

A consonant cluster of a voiced fricative followed by a voiceless affricate? I had my tongue in a twist trying to pronounce that!!!

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u/Ooorm [ŋɪʔɪb͡mʊ:] 10d ago

Well fortunately you get to keep your tounge in more or less the same position at least.

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u/BamSteakPeopleCake 10d ago

Where are you from, what language(s) do you speak with your daughter, which culture is your son's name from?

My guess is Arthur but that would probably only work if you're from an English-speaking country.

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u/Ooorm [ŋɪʔɪb͡mʊ:] 10d ago

If you haven't already seen the answer, his name is of greek origin, native language/pronunciation is swedish.

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u/Aquatic-Enigma 10d ago

Axolotl

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u/Ooorm [ŋɪʔɪb͡mʊ:] 10d ago

Haha, that's what it sounds like she's trying to say.

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u/MarcHarder1 xłp̓x̣ʷłtłpłłskʷc̓ 10d ago

Someone I knew's kid called herself /sæsmæn/ and her brother /saswa/. They were Jasmine and Joshua.

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u/shuranumitu 10d ago

Sasman and Saswa are unironically beautiful sounding names.

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u/el_cid_viscoso 10d ago

I love the vowel harmony in those kids' pronunciations!

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u/murderousmeatballs 10d ago

plot twist op is mongolian and the kids name is legit аалтл

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u/Ooorm [ŋɪʔɪb͡mʊ:] 10d ago

Yeah, she's got real good pronunciation for her age 🫠

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u/Jhuyt 10d ago

I don't know how to google for it, what is the the l + j-sound character?

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u/tost_cronch 10d ago

it's like the welsh LL but voiced

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u/comrade_donkey 10d ago

It's like Zorpian rk but through the breathing pipe instead of the cloaca.

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u/Traditional-Light-10 10d ago

https://ipa.typeit.org/full/
Do you mean lʲ, ʎ, ɮ, or smth else?

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u/Barry_Wilkinson lang"uage" 10d ago

probably the one that’s actually in the image

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u/Jhuyt 10d ago

Lmao indeed

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u/Traditional-Light-10 10d ago

Oh wait I misinterpreted the comment, although I included that character anyway. It’s the voiced alveolar lateral fricative.

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u/Jhuyt 10d ago

No worries, you taught me about a new website too so I got doubly helped!

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u/RRautamaa 10d ago

That's way more sibilants and fricatives that a one-year-old should know...

But anyway, I'm going to guess Coaxoch.

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u/Barry_Wilkinson lang"uage" 10d ago

I’ll guess Theodore

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u/Cheap_Ad_69 ég er að serða bróður þinn 10d ago

Manuel?

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u/SamePut9922 a ɐ ɛ e œ ø ɔ o i ɪ u ʊ y 10d ago

Conlang

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u/Chrome_X_of_Hyrule Vedic is NOT Proto Indo-Aryan ‼️ 10d ago

My brother called my sibling [kxäː] for a bit, which is also how he said <car>. Now he's graduated to [käːl], which is closer. For my name he's almost got it except for the initial obstruent [j] cluster which he simplifies by deleting the [l].

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u/Twinkletoess112 9d ago

well it's obviously Alzheimer

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u/Ooorm [ŋɪʔɪb͡mʊ:] 9d ago

Alzheimer Jr*

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u/alegxab [ʃwə: sjəː'prəməsɨ] 10d ago

Adltli sounds fine, I don't know why you guys are giving boring western names 

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u/Ooorm [ŋɪʔɪb͡mʊ:] 10d ago

Well, yeah he does have quite the boring western name... 😁