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could you please tell me the exact pronounciation for "tomb"; is it /tu:m/?
Last night I was reading an article on manga cartoons and there was one
word I couldn't find in mi dictionary, it is 'ANIME'. I suppose it's some
kind of abbreviation for animated, can anyone confirm that?
always thankful
CC

 always thankful
No, e' il termine giapponese per cartone animato, come "manga" e' il termine
giapponese per fumetto (significa "immagini irresponsabili" ed e' stato
coniato da Hokusai nel 1857, cosi' apprendo con sorpresa a
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Garden/3876/anime.html
)
Ciao
--
Giorgio

 kind of abbreviation for animated, can anyone confirm that?
così su due piedi non conosco perfettamente l'etimologia di Anime, sò
comunque che con tale termine -- usato più che altro nel settore
fumetti/cinema --, si intendono i film di animazione (siano essi lungo o
cortometraggi) di produzione nipponica.
spero di esserti stato di aiuto.
Walter

 could you please tell me the exact pronounciation for "tomb"; is it /tu:m/?
Yes (it rhymes with womb, whom and boom).
Mary
-- 
"I hear a clock in this tomb", said Tom cryptically.

 is it /tu:m/?
Yes, it is.
MM


ciao
CC

> could you please tell me the exact pronounciation for "tomb"; is it /tu:m/?
Yes, but note it is only a phonological transcription:
- /t/ is alveolar [t,], not dental as in Italian;
- /u:/ is a diphtong [Uu];
Phonetically, "tomb" can be transcripted [t,Uum],
that is the genuine English pronunciation.
Bye.

 così, per curiosità..
io personalmente lo ho sempre pronunciato all'italiana ... suppongo però che
si pronunci anim ... prendi il suggerimento molto con le pinze.
Walter

"I hear a clock in this tomb", said Tom cryptically.
"That's the biological clock in my womb!", replied Jane hysterically.
Raymot
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Il giorno 2 Feb 2000 08:28:28 +1000, 
rmot...@powerup.com.au
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pensato bene di dire al mondo:
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ROTFL
-- 
Isa
Work like you don't need money,
Love like you've never been hurt,
And dance like no one's watching

 it?
Dear Loki,
Indeed yes. If you care to post the article, it would be of interest.
I remain, as always,ecc.,
Bambi
dtb

 The extravagant failure of the pronunciation of English words to bear
Dear Loki,
With many thanks.
I remain, as always, ecc., ecc.,
Bambi
dtb

Here is some additional information on this interesting but problematic study as
published in Science News, Vol. 157, No. 4, January 22, 2000. Let's hope the law
regarding fair use saves me harmless for sharing this "excerpt" from the
magazine.
Ciao,
Ron
USA
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Some people cough up a lot of dough to master the tough task of reading in
English. Consider the difficulty of learning to read the words cough, dough, and
tough, given their nearly identical spellings and vastly different
pronunciations.
Unable to rely on consistent ties between letters and sounds, English readers
often use additional strategies to decode written words. As a result, their
reading-related brain activity differs in intriguing ways from that of Italians
reading their native language, in which letters almost always correspond to
consistent sounds, a new study suggests.
Two brain areas involved in remembering words exhibit the most activity as
native English readers read English words, according to a team of
neuroscientists led by Uta Frith of University College London and Eraldo Paulesu
of the University of Milan-Bicocca. The areas lie within an extensive brain
network previously linked to reading comprehension.
In contrast, another part of this brain network--already implicated in the
process of matching letters to corresponding sounds--displays the most activity
as Italians read Italian words, the scientists say.
The researchers used positron emission tomography scans to measure bloodflow
changes in volunteers' brains while they read words. This technique indirectly
charts rises or falls in cellular activity in different brain regions.
Different spelling systems, and perhaps other cuIture-specific ways of
organizing knowledge, markedly influence brain function, the researchers contend
in the January NATURE NEUROSCIENCE.
When presented with a list of words to read aloud in their respective languages,
six English college students took much longer to begin reading each word than
six Italian college students did. This disparity increased when the students
read pronounceable nonsense words.
Such findings support the idea that Italian readers pronounce words mainly by
translating letters into sounds, while English readers must adopt additional
tactics, such as consid-ering word meanings, to decide on pronunciation,
according to Frith and her colleagues.
Scientists do not yet know how the brain regions identified underwrite the
ability to read, remarks psychologist Julie A. Fiez of the University of
Pittsburgh in a comment published in the same journal.
Various types of reading instruction, such as those focusing on phonics or word
meanings (SN: 8/28/93, p.132), may affect brain development in different ways,
Fiez suggests. -B.B.