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King Kiwi ID:S9iV7zxW Tue 20 Nov 2018 06:35:12 No.6944813 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>6944817 >>6944820 >>6945070 >>6945274 >>6945324 >>6945353 >>6945544

Is 'while' a one-syllable or two-syllable word?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:le8CCGDc Tue 20 Nov 2018 06:35:47 No.6944817 Report

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>>6944813
2

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:pFhA6xcN Tue 20 Nov 2018 06:36:25 No.6944820 Report

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>>6944813
Just one. What makes you think it could be a two syllable word?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:AqLYgYt8 Tue 20 Nov 2018 07:03:52 No.6944947 Report

Quoted By: >>6945088

2 syllables

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:BirRgT51 Tue 20 Nov 2018 07:08:06 No.6944969 Report

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dragonball !UNSTjHdDlA ID:9StK3lMZ Tue 20 Nov 2018 07:10:02 No.6944978 Report

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1, but depends on the accent.

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dragonball !UNSTjHdDlA ID:9StK3lMZ Tue 20 Nov 2018 07:10:20 No.6944981 Report

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>>6944820
some people say "why-ul"

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:aPGcb7KS Tue 20 Nov 2018 07:34:46 No.6945070 Report

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>>6944813
you can count the syllables by counting how many times your jaw goes down when saying a word.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:7JTPQjTy Tue 20 Nov 2018 07:36:28 No.6945076 Report

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Your mom was sucking on a two-syllable word about 5 minutes ago

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Anonymous ID:kAfRAPc7 Tue 20 Nov 2018 07:40:54 No.6945088 Report

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>>6944817
>>6944947
>>6944969
>>6945076

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:z0WlRqE4 Tue 20 Nov 2018 07:41:13 No.6945089 Report

Quoted By: >>6945122 >>6945147

>>6944981
Yeah, but its a diphthong. Still counts as one.
Btw diphthongs are a combination of two vowel sounds in a single syllable. Like house and face

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:AqLYgYt8 Tue 20 Nov 2018 07:43:55 No.6945102 Report

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>>6945088
Maybe it's a difference in accents. Would you be able to post a vocaroo of yourself saying 'while'?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:RK+cSCdv Tue 20 Nov 2018 07:48:47 No.6945122 Report

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>>6945089
Malay anon knows English better than the average American and I am not surprised.

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dragonball !UNSTjHdDlA ID:9StK3lMZ Tue 20 Nov 2018 07:59:35 No.6945147 Report

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>>6945089
/'waı əl/ is very clearly two distinct syllables, despite the fact that the first syllable is a diphthong. Most english dialects have a hard time pronouncing /aıl/ and add in the /ə/ to make it easier. I personally pronounce it /wal/ due to my accent.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:BirRgT51 Tue 20 Nov 2018 08:11:19 No.6945167 Report

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>>6945088
>t. non-Canadian

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:aTxD4rK6 Tue 20 Nov 2018 08:51:16 No.6945274 Report

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>>6944813
1.
All these foreigners saying 2 need to stop appropriating my language.

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Anonymous ID:Hjs4RmUS Tue 20 Nov 2018 09:04:07 No.6945324 Report

Quoted By: >>6945328 >>6945330 >>6945331 >>6945346 >>6945390

>>6944813
One.
Who the fuck says "whi-le"?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:BirRgT51 Tue 20 Nov 2018 09:05:10 No.6945328 Report

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>>6945324
one syllable is "wile"
fucking ESL

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:BmTojXIa Tue 20 Nov 2018 09:05:33 No.6945330 Report

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>>6945324
People from the mid-west

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:AqLYgYt8 Tue 20 Nov 2018 09:06:05 No.6945331 Report

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>>6945324
It's more along the lines of why-yool

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SHIT POST ID:9YfAuhoL Tue 20 Nov 2018 09:06:48 No.6945333 Report

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>>6945330
This is true

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:aTxD4rK6 Tue 20 Nov 2018 09:10:59 No.6945346 Report

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>>6945324
tfw Dane speaks better English than leafs, burgers and aussies

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:CehtcCs8 Tue 20 Nov 2018 09:11:49 No.6945350 Report

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my-ull
nye-ull
pie-ull
why-ull

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SHIT POST ID:9YfAuhoL Tue 20 Nov 2018 09:11:50 No.6945351 Report

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>>6945346
*tfw Dane speaks better English than leafs, me and aussies

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mRi6VuS2 Tue 20 Nov 2018 09:12:50 No.6945353 Report

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>>6944813
WAI-'ol

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:aTxD4rK6 Tue 20 Nov 2018 09:12:52 No.6945354 Report

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>>6945351
s-shut up white boy.

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dragonball !UNSTjHdDlA ID:9StK3lMZ Tue 20 Nov 2018 09:14:56 No.6945360 Report

Quoted By: >>6945362

I say it just like you say "wall"

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:CehtcCs8 Tue 20 Nov 2018 09:15:26 No.6945362 Report

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>>6945360
delete your accent

dragonball !UNSTjHdDlA

dragonball !UNSTjHdDlA ID:9StK3lMZ Tue 20 Nov 2018 09:17:31 No.6945369 Report

Quoted By: >>6945374

>>6945362
no it's very colorful

pin and pen are said the same way too

and you never pronounce unvoiced stops at the end of words (just is pronounced "jus" for example)

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:BmTojXIa Tue 20 Nov 2018 09:19:21 No.6945374 Report

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>>6945369
sounds like southern ozark to me

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dragonball !UNSTjHdDlA ID:9StK3lMZ Tue 20 Nov 2018 09:21:59 No.6945384 Report

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>>6945374
southern appalachia but most of the south have those features to some degree anyway far as I'm aware

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mRi6VuS2 Tue 20 Nov 2018 09:23:52 No.6945390 Report

Quoted By: >>6945437

>>6945324
Words containing diphthongs surrounded by two consonants with the second consonant being an "L" or an "R" sounds like two syllables to me.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mRi6VuS2 Tue 20 Nov 2018 09:25:52 No.6945393 Report

Quoted By: >>6945535

>>6945384
I'm in Central Texas and everyone here under the age of 20 sounds like they're from the North.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Hjs4RmUS Tue 20 Nov 2018 09:38:59 No.6945437 Report

Quoted By: >>6945444

>>6945390
Pronunciation is meaningless in a pure grammatical context; there is no diphthong in "while".

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mRi6VuS2 Tue 20 Nov 2018 09:41:04 No.6945444 Report

Quoted By: >>6945447 >>6945455 >>6945508

>>6945437
Yes there is, it's the "aJ" sound.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mRi6VuS2 Tue 20 Nov 2018 09:41:46 No.6945447 Report

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>>6945444
4chan won't properly display IPA so:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub9ONgsThKc

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Hjs4RmUS Tue 20 Nov 2018 09:42:59 No.6945455 Report

Quoted By: >>6945508 >>6945509 >>6945535

>>6945444
No, there is not. As I said: pronunciation is meaningless in a pure grammatical context.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Hjs4RmUS Tue 20 Nov 2018 09:53:25 No.6945508 Report

Quoted By: >>6945524 >>6945535

>>6945444
>>6945455
Allow me to restate it in a more correct way: the written word in a pure grammatical context does not contain a diphthong, contra the spoken version.
Nevertheless, a diphthong is by its very definition one syllable, my point therefore still stands.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mRi6VuS2 Tue 20 Nov 2018 09:53:30 No.6945509 Report

Quoted By: >>6945524

>>6945455
Yes there is, the vowel in "while" is a combination of the two individual sounds "ah" and "ee": "ai", thus, a diphthong.

The sound "ai" as in pride, wide, and while, and the sound "ei" as in may, ray, and whale, the sound "oi" as in boy, toy, and boil, the sound "au" as in now, brow, and power all are diphthongs.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:RK+cSCdv Tue 20 Nov 2018 09:55:52 No.6945515 Report

Quoted By: >>6945535

in the US, where common speech sounds like a bandsaw cutting galvanized tin ...

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Hjs4RmUS Tue 20 Nov 2018 10:00:00 No.6945524 Report

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>>6945509
See >>6945508

dragonball !UNSTjHdDlA

dragonball !UNSTjHdDlA ID:9StK3lMZ Tue 20 Nov 2018 10:03:56 No.6945535 Report

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>>6945393
Transplants need to die

>>6945455
>>6945508
What are you even arguing? Diphthongs are purely phonetic and the way a word is written is entirely unrelated

>>6945515
Is this a yuro with a proxy or just a y*nkee that thinks everyone in am*rigay sounds as awful as he does?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mRi6VuS2 Tue 20 Nov 2018 10:05:00 No.6945543 Report

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>>6945524
So you're talking about how the word looks and how it relates to grammar than the sounds itself?

Heaven

Heaven ID:FRQ5WFqy Tue 20 Nov 2018 10:06:05 No.6945544 Report

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>>6944813
its three dumbass
why-ell-eeeeeeeee

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dragonball !UNSTjHdDlA ID:9StK3lMZ Tue 20 Nov 2018 10:06:33 No.6945546 Report

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>>6945544
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