But i commonly hear it pronounced both with a j sound and without. I live in the pacific northwest USA in case you were looking for datapoints from various regions.
So it isn't just a Southern/African-American speech thing, perhaps?
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
Je suis méchant.
Je suis méchant.
/Linguistics: Curious to see how people across the globe pronounce this
13/07/2012 07:02:35 AM
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Re: /Linguistics: Curious to see how people across the globe pronounce this
13/07/2012 12:45:03 PM
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I don't include a j sound.
13/07/2012 03:53:20 PM
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Interesting
13/07/2012 10:19:19 PM
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neither.... who says dur-agon? i don't palatalize the cluster. *NM*
13/07/2012 05:23:45 PM
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Some Southerners? *NM*
13/07/2012 10:18:36 PM
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heh... another interesting feature of aave/southern dialects is str as shtr, i.e. shtress *NM*
14/07/2012 04:28:05 PM
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That's not Received Pronunciation. If I were dictator, we would beat people to force them to quit.
13/07/2012 09:40:16 PM
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So no "tyune" for "tune"?
13/07/2012 10:15:05 PM
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Not very good with the linguistics terminology, but I just say, well, "dr".
13/07/2012 09:54:08 PM
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How are "dj" and "j" supposed to differ? Can I have that in IPA please?
13/07/2012 11:49:02 PM
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Sure, if I can copy/paste this in
14/07/2012 01:00:04 AM
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