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Lughaidh
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Username: Lughaidh
Post Number: 1855
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, August 25, 2007 - 04:01 pm: |   
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How would you say "tosach na teanga a ardú go maith" (in a article about phonetics) in English? I understand what it means but I don't know how to say it in proper English...
Thanks!
Learn Irish pronunciation here: www.phouka.com/gaelic/sounds/sounds.htm & http://fsii.gaeilge.org/
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Aonghus
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Username: Aonghus
Post Number: 6035
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, August 25, 2007 - 04:19 pm: |
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Lift the tip/front of the tongue well up (Is dóigh liom) |
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Lughaidh
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Username: Lughaidh
Post Number: 1858
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, August 25, 2007 - 04:22 pm: |
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Go rabh míle maith agat!
Learn Irish pronunciation here: www.phouka.com/gaelic/sounds/sounds.htm & http://fsii.gaeilge.org/
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Bearn
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Username: Bearn
Post Number: 301
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, August 25, 2007 - 07:26 pm: |
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Semantics, maybe, but I would say 'raise' as lift implies an external agent, whereas the tongue has internal muscles.
You could certainly raise a bar aganist that but raise is ever so slightly of higher registrar, and in a descriptive text would be a little more objective sounding
le díol
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James
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Username: James
Post Number: 495
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, August 26, 2007 - 09:10 am: |
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yes....that's a matter of semantics that can be argued endlessly....the tongue requires the external agent of the brain in order to initiate the series of mechanical and chemical responses that will eventually result in lifting/raising the tip of the tongue.
Is minic a bhris beál duine a shrón.
Fáilte roimh cheartú, go deo.
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Bearn
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Username: Bearn
Post Number: 304
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, August 26, 2007 - 09:50 am: |
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I meant that in such texts, raise is used more often than lift, thats all
le díol
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