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[–] MudMan@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Different vowels, though. Like I said below, I wonder what the "pretentious" read would be with an accurate Catalan pronuntiation. Gonna guess it'd pass better, because all anglophones tend to know about that whole situation is "Castillian Spanish lisp hur hur".

Maybe that's why this strip and the whole "he said it with a lisp to sound cultured" joke rub me the wrong way. It always seems like latching on to the pretentiousness to get away with an ignorant or xenophobic joke.

[–] Persi@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The Wikipedia entry has a pronunciation guide:

English: [bɑːrsəˈloʊnə]

Catalan: [bəɾsəˈlonə]

The first a is a schwa and the o isn't rounded. Honestly, it looks quite similar to English, to the point where there might be some English dialect that sounds exactly like that.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 0 points 1 day ago

Having heard native speakers say it many times, this post is mostly showing the limitations of IPA because... yeah, no, not really.