Vesuvius owo Classical Antiquity (~100 BCE) (media.piefed.social)
 

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[–] 52 points 10 months ago (5 children)
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    [–] 15 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    Non-native speaker here confused by this. Isn't w pronounced as v anyways?

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  • [–] [S] 22 points 10 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    I honestly can't tell the difference from the sound alone

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago

    It's easier to notice if you exaggerate it. A word starting with V always has the bottom lip touching the top teeth. A word with W has the bottom lip pushed as far forward as possible and never touches teeth.

    Just pushing the bottom lip around you can hear the difference from Wine <-> Vine

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    What is your native language?

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    Dang, was hoping there was a similar enough sound in your native language to help. It appears from my search that there really just isn't anything similar to English W.

    Here's my best attempt:

    The sound in Turkish represented by U, if you make that sound with a slight vibration at the beginning, you'd get something like "woo" in English. The beginning part of that is the W sound.

    With V, the sound you said you couldn't really distinguish from W, the tooth touch the lip in the same position as F, but you vibrate slightly to the V. The W sound isn't really made that way at all, and the sound itself isn't really similar. It looks like two Vs for historical reasons, but in English it represents an entirely different sound.

    That's probably a terrible description, but I suck at explaining things. Lol. I do know that when learning another language there are some sounds that you just cannot pick up on if you didn't learn it as a child. I'm not sure if this is one of those, or if you can train yourself to hear it.

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    [–] 15 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Stwike him, centuwian, vewy wuffly.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago

    In point of fact, most victims died from pywocwastic fwow.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    This is basically why I use ecclesiastical pronunciation for latin.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    Rabbit Cohen 😭

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    CENTURION: Only one survivor, sir.

    PILATE: Ah. Thwow him to the floor.

    CENTURION: What, sir?

    PILATE: Thwow him to the floor.

    CENTURION: Ah.

    whump

    BRIAN: Aagh!

    PILATE: Hmm. Now, what is your name, Jew?

    BRIAN: 'Brian', sir.

    PILATE: 'Bwian', eh?

    BRIAN: No, no. 'Brian'.

    slap

    Aah!

    PILATE: Hoo hoo hoo ho. The little wascal has spiwit.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    Awe! True to Kaisar!

    And then I beat the shit out of them. Especially that furry Wulpes Inkulta.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Turns out Chekov from Star Trek named that mountain.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Even Elmer Fudd could pronounce V's.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Depends on which period of time we're talking about.

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