Why do you pronociate tHree as tree?

• Yao.peijun

  1 May 10, 02:28

  that is quiet common mistake

   

  is that because the people in south china can't curl their tongue?

   

  thus most singaporean pronociate "th"   [θ]    as "ph"  [f]

  and for mandrain , looks like no different about : shi  å��and  si å››

• _Da_Dood_

  1 May 10, 02:37

  so, would u mind telling why u spelt pronunciate as pronociate??

• littlemissbonkers

  1 May 10, 02:42

  Originally posted by Yao.peijun:

  that is quiet common mistake

   

  It's not quiet but quite!

   

• _Da_Dood_

  1 May 10, 02:46

  Originally posted by littlemissbonkers:

  It's not quiet but quite!

   

  
  >.< i dint spot that

  edit: mandrain?...lol man de long kang?... ts naughty naughty

• Clivebenss

  1 May 10, 02:52

  Pronociate??

  

• FireIce

  1 May 10, 03:26

  bcos some might kamlan and bite their tongue too hard
  
  
  th is "f" usually at ending
  the most common one is with
  
  sh is 翘舌
  which is not related to "th"
  
  
  and i have no idea wat u trying to say
  just randomly linking these things so u can pick on ppl's pronunciation
  
  i haben even mention the spelling mistakes.........and the wonderful grammar

• dragg

  1 May 10, 07:39

  dont have to be so harsh.

  TS is just asking why locals commit common mistakes he happens to notice.

   

• TTFU

  1 May 10, 09:09

  PCK says anything is okay, who gives a damm.

  

• HyperionDCZ

  1 May 10, 09:18

  Originally posted by _Da_Dood_:

  so, would u mind telling why u spelt pronunciate as pronociate??

  its spelt pronOunce or pronOunciation. And theres no such word as pronunciate

• Bus&Soccer l0v3r (VO3x 1)

  1 May 10, 09:26

  TS fail instead of correcting ppl
  
  
  Y not u correct urself first...

• FireIce

  1 May 10, 16:05

  locals?
  
  south china?

   

  huh??!?!??!?!??!

• dangerboi

  1 May 10, 20:34

  Originally posted by FireIce:

  locals?
  
  south china?

   

  huh??!?!??!?!??!

  He's stating that most of the local chinese in Singapore are descendents of those who came from the southern part of china, is he?

   

  gotta do a check on this 

• FireIce

  1 May 10, 20:38

  照那样推测.... three shd be free!!
  
  
  �，大家跟我念.....
  
  wan choo free!

• dangerboi

  1 May 10, 20:39

  Originally posted by Yao.peijun:

  that is quiet common mistake

   

  is that because the people in south china can't curl their tongue?

   

  thus most singaporean pronociate "th"   [θ]    as "ph"  [f]

  and for mandrain , looks like no different about : shi  å��and  si å››

  I'm unsure of the mandarin part but tree and three sound prominently different in pronounciation. People articulate rather than 'pronounce' nowadays

• FireIce

  1 May 10, 20:41

  Originally posted by dangerboi:

  He's stating that most of the local chinese in Singapore are descendents of those who came from the southern part of china, is he?

   

  gotta do a check on this 

  张冠�戴
  
  牛头�对马嘴

   

  the chinese syllabus here is following beijing dialect
  we are now the 3rd, going into 4th gen liao
  watever accents oredi eroded completely

• FireIce

  1 May 10, 20:42

  everybardie, it's PRONUNCIATION, not pronounciation

• mancha

  2 May 10, 01:12

  pronounce  Why do you pronounce three as tree?

  pronunciation Why is your pronunciation of three, like a tree?

• Vote PAP OUT to Save SG

  2 May 10, 01:15

  Because english is an alien language to han chinese?

  by the way how well can those ang moh speak hokkien?

   

  Singapore is probably the only state in the entire world where majority group(75%-80%) in that country forced to learn alien language just because the leader is an english speaking motherfucking bastard.

  serve the interests of the english speaking elite which he belongs, that anglo fucking bastard.

• we sacrifice

  2 May 10, 01:29

  Yao.peijun is a northern Chinese . . . ..   learning English in Singapore

  ah tiong . . . . ..  master your English . . . 

  . . . then surf here . ..   to correct English of  . . . netizens

  Northern Chinese . . . .. .   superb  .. .  to pick on  . .  .   southern Chinese

   

  你出丑了!  羞羞!

  The standard Mandarin is used by . . .  the broadcast journalists in . . . . China, Singapore Tv.   They don't  . .. . .  emphasize on curling tongue pronunication.

   

• FireIce

  2 May 10, 01:30

  this name dun sound china-ish.

• _Da_Dood_

  2 May 10, 02:19

  Originally posted by HyperionDCZ:

  its spelt pronOunce or pronOunciation. And theres no such word as pronunciate

  
  seek some research before u start correcting

• we sacrifice

  2 May 10, 02:26

  Originally posted by _Da_Dood_:

  
  seek some research before u start correcting

  
  . . .  did you check  . . . the dictionary for the right words and spelling . . ..  prior to posting your reply?

  HyperionDCZ  .  .  .  has given . . .. .   the correct answers.

• BanguIzai

  2 May 10, 02:53

  Originally posted by Yao.peijun:

  that is quiet common mistake

   

  is that because the people in south china can't curl their tongue?

   

  thus most singaporean pronociate "th"   [θ]    as "ph"  [f]

  and for mandrain , looks like no different about : shi  å��and  si å››

  quite true

  Singaporeans pronounce written "th" [θ] initially as "t"   and finally as "f"

  therefore "three" becomes "tree"  and  "teeth" become "teef"

  the reason behind that is [θ] doesn't exist in the most people's mother tongues of Singaporeans (all Southern Chinese dialects, all Malay dialects, all Indian languages ,  only Arabic has [θ] sound) that's why, therefore the substitution of similar phonemes in place of it

  similarly another phenomenon is the pronunciation of final and sub-final "l" or "ll"  as "u"/"w"

  eg.
          kill  -->  kiu
          pill  -->  piu
          milk  -->  miuk
          heal  -->   hiu
          until  -->  untiu
          file  -->  fau
          pail  -->  pehw
          pale  -->  pehw
          mail  -->  mehw
          fail  -->  fehw
          cold  -->  cou
          hold  -->  hou
          fold  -->  fou
          hole  --> hou
          shield  -->   shiu
          pull  -->  puu
          full  -->  fuu
          tool  -->  tuu

  but usually I hear Indians can pronounce the actual final "l" due to their mother tongue having final "l" too.   but Chinese usually pronounce as above.

• _Da_Dood_

  2 May 10, 02:57

  Originally posted by we sacrifice:

  
  . . .  did you check  . . . the dictionary for the right words and spelling . . ..  prior to posting your reply?

  HyperionDCZ  .  .  .  has given . . .. .   the correct answers.

   

  http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_pronunciate_a_word

  http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pronunciate

  In your face! Get your facts right, don't just fire blanks.

  So now, please justify your "correct answer" with supported source.

• troublemaker2005

  2 May 10, 05:52

   

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