Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Pronuncia di "thread"

Ciao a tutti.
Qualcuno potrebbe gentilmente illuminarmi sulla pronuncia di 'thread'?
Ne ho sentite tre o quattro versioni diverse, compresa quella del mio
Responsabile (analista programmatore)... "triad"... mi chiedevo se
fosse quella giusta.
Ho provato a cercare una risposta nel gruppo ma non ho trovato nulla.
Grazie e ciao
Matteo

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Si pronuncia thr3d (3 = e aperta); "th" č quel suono che non esiste in
italiano; mettere la lingua tra i denti e soffiare fortemente (ma non
troppo) (and don't feel silly doing it; it's the way it's done.) :)
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 Qualcuno potrebbe gentilmente illuminarmi sulla pronuncia di 'thread'?
Sai come si pronuncia 'red'? Ecco, ci aggiungi il suono del 'th' sordo
davanti, e ci sei. 
Max

 
Non è sempre vero che il capo ha sempre ragione!!! =^P
Ciao
ValerioZ

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Is it me, or is this man saying "Fred"?
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=thread

 
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=thread
I fink it's you; he's saying "thread"  :)
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 I fink it's you; he's saying "thread"  :)
It sounds like "Fred" to me, too, presumably because jonny and I aren't
used to hearing an American accent.
-- 
Mary

I fink it's you; he's saying "thread"  :)
Just me again! :) Maybe it's the accent. I'd expect the "th" to be
more pronounced.

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I listened to it again (on the desktop machine this time; better speakers)
and you are both right... it sounds more like Fred than thread. I guess I
was expecting to hear "thread" and that's what I "heard" the first time.
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 was expecting to hear "thread" and that's what I "heard" the first time.
I've listened to it several times and it definitely seems "thread" to me. I
don't think it depends on the th's not being emphasised, but on the r's
being very rrrr-ish. In BritEng "r", when pronounced, is less rrrr-ish (if
you know what I mean). 
Bye, FB
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Se dico "siedi!" manca l'oggetto.
Siedo chi? Lei o me?
(da it.cultura.linguistica.italiano)

 Bye, FB
Irish? Less Irish?  :)  It seems to me the speaker could have enunciated a
bit better for the sake of clarity.
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 Si pronuncia thr3d (3 = e aperta);
A proposito di e aperte... Come pronunciate "pay" e simili? Insomma il
dittong "ay". 
Secondo il dizionario Zanichelli dovrebbe essere una "e" chiusa, e
anche la pronuncia sul M-W mi sembra chiusa 
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=pay
anche se meno chiusa della e chiusa italiana.

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Hai "battuto il chiodo sulla testa!" :))
E chiusa, seguita di una traccia di "i": /pe:i/
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On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 22:53:14 +0200, Enrico C wrote:
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Penso che in USA sia sempre così, ma che in GB si possa sentire (a me non
piace) piuttosto, o molto, aperta (e così parole simili, come "day").
Ciao, FB
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Mrs. Palmer, in her way, was equally angry. 'She was determined to drop his
acquaintance immediately, and she was very thankful that she had never been
acquainted with him at all'. (Jane Austen)

 enunciated a bit better for the sake of clarity.
Speaker? Which speaker? It's computer generated...
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Giovanni Bajo

 fosse quella giusta.
Forse il tuo responsabile soffre di un lapsus freudiano dovuto a un suo passato
da mafioso orientale.
-- 
Giovanni Bajo


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Even in this case, they must have "tuned by hand", so to speak, a few
irregular pronunciations. "Colonel", for instance.

 irregular pronunciations. "Colonel", for instance.
It's of course generated from the pronounciation transcription, IPA or
whatever. It wouldn't make any sense otherwise.
-- 
Giovanni Bajo


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Yes, you must be right, of course :)