Pronounciations

[Shougun]

"Su" is abbreviated in speech often from what I've heard (not an expert by far in JP language but I've heard plenty of casual talk out in Cali etc). Dess, "staato (start)" etc

If I recall, Wilan speaks Italian, which is the same as my situation. I speak Spanish, so the same goes: what we hear is mostly what we write. Of course there are several exceptions (such as writing "gu" to make a hard g sound, but "gü" means you pronounce both hard g and the u). But English, by far, has the most complicated grammar and rule exceptions >.>

No language is immune to rule exceptions though, even if, like Italian or Spanish or Japanese, most of the spellings are phonetic.

I defintely agree English has its fun for pronunciation but if your language has accents, or if it has any irregulars then at some point you will have to consider a true phonetic system and not call your language phonetic itself. At least thats what I was getting at.


"I laugh at you for trying to write phonetics" - and all I think is unless your language is 5 years or younger or has barely moved out of a small landmass then you'd also have inaccurate writing to pronunciation (time and movement lead to a lot of mutation).

(On su, from what I remember in class we literally said su for masu- although I looked into it more at appears only some people do lol google translator doesn't (while not the best source for pronunciation google has gotten a pretty good robotic voice))