Writing foreign letters

[deptfordmarmoset]

You say archaic, but that's how I'm going to spell them from now on. I wonder what the archaic pronunciation of aëroplane and aërial was.

The French use of the tréma in those words gives a short /a/ as in apathy, followed by a sort of /yehr/ . Hope this helps your conversational skills.....

 

[Yellow Fang]

The French use of the tréma in those words gives a short /a/ as in apathy, followed by a sort of /yehr/ . Hope this helps your conversational skills.....

I have just been watching a clip of Amy Johnson speaking in 1930. She pronounces aëroplane (3:09) pretty much the same we do.

 

[BrumJim]

....
Turkish throws up some interesting accents, have to copy paste those usually.

And the 'i's with missing dots on the top.

 

[PeteXXX]

Blimey - you live and learn:-

"The diaeresis[a] (/daɪˈɛriːsɪs/ dy-ERR-ee-sis; also known as the trémahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_(diacritic)#cite_note-2) and the umlaut are two different homoglyphic diacritical marks. They both consist of two dots ( ¨ ) placed over a letter, usually a vowel. When that letter is an i or a j, the diacritic replaces the tittle: ï.[1]
The diaeresis and the umlaut are diacritics marking two distinct phonological phenomena. The diaeresis represents the phenomenon also known as diaeresis or hiatus in which a vowel letter is pronounced separately from an adjacent vowel and not as part of a digraph or diphthong. The umlaut (/ˈʊmlaʊt/), in contrast, indicates a sound shift. "

I was just about to say that!!

 

[PeteXXX]

On an Android phone, a long press on a letter, or number, will open the option of all sorts of ğ ð ű ů ü uû ę ⅛ ¼ ± ¥ strange thingies...
Not sure if this works on Fruit based, or @Drago types of prehistoric phones, though.

 

[matticus]

Blimey - you live and learn:-

"The diaeresis[a] (/daɪˈɛriːsɪs/ dy-ERR-ee-sis; also known as the trémahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_(diacritic)#cite_note-2) and the umlaut are two different homoglyphic diacritical marks. They both consist of two dots ( ¨ ) placed over a letter, usually a vowel. When that letter is an i or a j, the diacritic replaces the tittle: ï.[1]
The diaeresis and the umlaut are diacritics marking two distinct phonological phenomena. The diaeresis represents the phenomenon also known as diaeresis or hiatus in which a vowel letter is pronounced separately from an adjacent vowel and not as part of a digraph or diphthong. The umlaut (/ˈʊmlaʊt/), in contrast, indicates a sound shift. "

So which are they in aëroplane and aërial . And why? :P

(I pronounce both words as 3 syllables/sounds. I think ... )

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

So which are they in aëroplane and aërial . And why? :P

(I pronounce both words as 3 syllables/sounds. I think ... )

Why are you asking me? I'm only able to copy and paste from Wikipedia

 

[Yellow Fang]

I have started getting foreign adverts on my computer. I got something in Dutch on YouTube, and I have just seen an ad that said "video ohne werbung" on another forum. Could the interweb have detected my ë and ö keystrokes? Maybe if I start using the a with the little circle above it and the o with the diagonal line through it, I will start getting Scandinavian ads.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I was reading a bit of H P Lovecraft today

What a great writer!!

Such conjuring up of imagery, is such classics as 'At The Mountains Of Madness'
He was supposed to have had an abject dislike of the cold/ice/snow, & it really shows