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14 Jun 2010, 1:23 pm

Awesome band or awesome word to speak?
Btw, they use uvular trill.

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14 Jun 2010, 2:49 pm

Both, actually.

And speaking of German, I have trouble making the consonant sound in words like "acht", whatever it is called, haha.

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14 Jun 2010, 3:17 pm

Xeno wrote:

Both, actually.

And speaking of German, I have trouble making the consonant sound in words like "acht", whatever it is called, haha.

It's Ach-laut - if you mean CH in acht, Macht, doch, loch, Dach, auch. It's harsh sound from the back of mouth.
CH can be also as Ich-laut in words like ich, nicht, Pflicht, euch, Schläuche. It's soft.

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14 Jun 2010, 5:19 pm

I love saying "scaffolding" so whenever I see any, I instantly shout it out.

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14 Jun 2010, 5:20 pm

Spelunk

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14 Jun 2010, 5:31 pm

arecibo_ wrote:

I love saying "scaffolding" so whenever I see any, I instantly shout it out.

I like the sound of "rebar".

So I guess if there are two people standing in front of a building under construction and happily yelling out words, it will be us. :lol:

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14 Jun 2010, 5:45 pm

Sounds like fun, we should try it sometime.

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14 Jun 2010, 7:06 pm

Turn on, tune in and drop out. :flower:

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15 Jun 2010, 2:05 am

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I can't make the trilled R sounds used in Spanish and Russian. That frustrates me, haha. I was told by a Spanish professor that if people don't start doing it when they're little kids they're usually not able to learn to. I also think it's interesting that in Japanese there is no L or R sound, but a sort of tongue flapping sound that is in between. That's why many Japanese people mix up the L's and R's in English.

And, I like the word "zany".

zany is a funny word.
many japanese singers trill their Rs. it seems to be a fancy affectation.
to do dental trills, [the most common type in spanish] you put your tongue tip on the fleshy shoulder behind your upper front teeth like you were about to say D or T but instead blow through it. i learned this from watching the biography "Selena" where the late singer's father taught her how to roll her Rs. it takes time but eventually [if your genes allow for such tongue movement] you will get a fluttery trill sound. practice by saying "RRRruffles have RRRridges."
i read that people who genetically cannot make a U-shape with their tongue also have difficulty with trills.
the toughest spanish R-word is "Refrigerador."

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15 Jun 2010, 2:08 am

Valoyossa wrote:

There are three trills: alveolar, uvular and guttural. I can spell two last, but alveolar is still unavailable for me.

would you tell me what types of words have alveolar trills?

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15 Jun 2010, 6:28 am

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caboodle (versus kit)
ca-noodle
hubble-bubble (waterpipe)
kumquat
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15 Jun 2010, 6:42 am

Flannel
crumpet
wallop

and place names like: Ouagadougu and mogadishu (probably spelt both wrong but nvm)

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15 Jun 2010, 8:55 am

auntblabby wrote:

Valoyossa wrote:

There are three trills: alveolar, uvular and guttural. I can spell two last, but alveolar is still unavailable for me.

would you tell me what types of words have alveolar trills?

In Poland every word with R is spoken alveoral. Spanish uses alveoral too. In Germany you can speak R how you want, it depends of region

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYp6qJFb1EU[/youtube]

OMG, I can't speak like this kid! I can roll, but not this way!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNPDbqwnQNg[/youtube]

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16 Jun 2010, 2:31 am

I apparently hijacked this thread by mentioning trilling R's. It was not intentional. I hope we get more lists of words that are fun to say.

I noticed that many of these words are "borrowed" from other languages. Native Americans have provided us with some of the more interesting words in English (usually place names.) The Aborigines in Australia have given us (i think) some fun words like didgeridoo and kangaroo, and wallabie.

I think Yiddish is my favorite source of fun words which are now often used in English. Mishugina and fakakta come to mind.

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16 Jun 2010, 4:05 am

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OMG, I can't speak like this kid! I can roll, but not this way!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNPDbqwnQNg[/youtube]

what this kid is doing, is what i've often heard referred-to, as a dental trill. as demonstated in the [movie] biography "selena," you put your tongue tip on the fleshy ridge roughly 1/4" behind your upper front teeth, as though you were going to say a "D" or a "T" but instead blow through it. this is fairly easy to do in a sustained fashion as the child in the video demonstrated. the hard part is integrating this into a word such as "MutteRRRRRR" [mother]- and the child demonstrated trouble doing this.

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16 Jun 2010, 4:13 am

Rocky wrote:

I apparently hijacked this thread by mentioning trilling R's. It was not intentional. I hope we get more lists of words that are fun to say.
I think Yiddish is my favorite source of fun words which are now often used in English. Mishugina and fakakta come to mind.

trilled R words are fun to say, if one can accomplish the trill. at least they are funny to listen to. i remember seeing a news report about this journalist interviewing somebody living in poverty in cuba, and he asked this lady if she had any carne [meat] or leche [milk] and she looked at the reporter like he had 2 heads and said, CARrrrrNE CRrrrrAZY!! ! the way she rhotacised her Rs was hilarious to me.
and i like how yiddish has given nightclub comedians and colorful conversationalists at least a dozen or so alternative words [denoting shape and size] for the male organ.

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