#Phonetics
Roczyste is fantastic! They should adopt that spelling instead of Rochester, for some extra flair! Phonetics are so great.
There's a map issued to Polish airmen in WW2 that has all the place names spelled phonetically because they were being given directions in English by ground control.
September 29, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Exactly! I would be fine with importing neopronouns from other languages though. But then they should expect to be adapted into local grammatical rules and phonetics and such.
September 29, 2026 at 9:12 AM
Having mandatory abstracts in scientific papers took some decades until it was established across disciplines — in linguistics, phonetics or speech science. Now with AI summaries we may get rid of them, again.
(and use the free space to add 6-7 more AI generated sentences to our main body of text 🤣)
September 29, 2026 at 8:36 AM
@maddow.bsky.social
I thought I'd help you so you can pronounce Matryoshka. The Russian language is full of words without vowels. The way they write it in English is simply counterintuitive. It's pronounced, ma-trosh-ka with a long o sound. I don't understand why phonetics aren't used. Good luck!
September 29, 2026 at 5:34 AM
Is mostly phonetics
That land is Saxe Anhalt
And Frenchies tend to forget to pronounce b the H in a foreign word/name
So it became Sexe anal (I think this is close enough to English to be stunned explanatory now ^^)
September 29, 2026 at 3:16 AM
Occitan is close to Catalan and here in Provance the similarities with Italian across the border .

Phonetics similar to Spain 🇪🇸 and Italy 🇮🇹
September 28, 2026 at 10:25 PM
At the pub quiz and I'm valiantly trying to stay awake. Being middle-age is no joke, kids. I used to go clubbing and THEN show up to an 8am lecture on phonetics no problem. Ha!
September 28, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Listen, millennials are going to have to be the ones to close this literacy gap. We will benefit so much from it, and we're kinda the right generation to do it. Calling us all to arms. We need new Sesame Streets, School House Rocks, Reading Rainbows, cross-generational phonetics packages, the works.
September 28, 2026 at 8:29 PM
About the speakers:
Dr. Ida Toivonen is a generative linguist, and her work spans phonetics, phonology, syntax, and semantics, but has mostly been concerned with syntax. Her work on syntax has mostly been within the formal framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar.
September 28, 2026 at 2:59 PM
I assume you're aware of Eldamo (eldamo.org/content/phon...) and the list of Sindarin sound changes in David Salo's "Gateway to Sindarin" book?
Eldamo : Quenya Phonetics
eldamo.org
September 28, 2026 at 8:58 AM
i love the way he uses collections of chinese characters to help his students find the phonetics of the phrases too!
September 28, 2026 at 3:41 AM
from p. 46 in “Phonetics and phonology” by Sandra Clarke and Andrew Erskine in “Newfoundland and Labrador English” ed. by Sandra Clarke (2010)
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Phonetics and phonology
Abstract. This chapter outlines the chief segmental (consonant and vowel) features of contemporary Newfoundland and Labrador English, and includes a brief
academic.oup.com
September 27, 2026 at 9:00 PM
And don’t get me started about why phonetics isn’t spelt with an F
September 27, 2026 at 8:09 PM
On Oct 1, Petra Wagner has an oral presentation of work with Frederik Rautenberg, Fritz Seebauer & Reinhold Haeb-Umbach at #Interspeech2026 titled: “Hierarchical Conditional Continuous Normalizing Flows for Creaky Voice Editing under Speaker Identity Preservation”

#BielefeldUniversity #Phonetics
Interspeech 2026 - Interspeech 2026
Join us in Sydney for Interspeech 2026, the premier international conference on speech science and technology, celebrating diversity, equity, and innovation from 28 September to 1 October 2026.
interspeech2026.org
September 27, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Nikdy som to nevyslovil inak... 😂 to skrátka nejde. To je tak hardcoded v mojej DNA z tej doby, že by to ani lobotomia priamo na ling-phil.ox.ac.uk nespravila 🤷‍♂️
Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics
www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
September 27, 2026 at 5:00 PM
I Can see you doing an elaborate phonetics-based bit that only you can detect or understand, but i feel like ur more likely to chuckle conspiratorially to yourself than correct someone else.
September 26, 2026 at 11:58 PM
i would fight that guy. that’s not an appropriate way to apply being a phonetics nerd. i’d fight him
September 26, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Jana Wiechmann has an oral presentation on joint work with Frederik Rautenberg, Reinhold Haeb-Umbach & Petra Wagner on “Can deep learning based voice editing enhance voice quality perception skills in speech therapy students?”

Sep 30 at #Interspeech2026 in Sydney.

#BielefeldUniversity #Phonetics
September 26, 2026 at 7:55 PM