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[–] Haggunenons@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Are these all pronounced exactly the same way?

[–] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago

Actually yes. You can stress out some syllables to say YOUR moon is burning and such but it doesn't help a lot. Context matters

[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago

Yep. Or maybe you could say that they have a teeny tiny difference, but it's barely noticeable if you aren't listening very closely.

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most likely not, I expect it's the same as what you can do in English, put the stress on different places in a sentence to give different meaning.

[–] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They all actually sound quite the same. Some syllables can be stressed to highlight parts of the sentences. YOUR moon vs your MOON

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Finnish people gets this imprinted from birth, other people thinks "How can this work? 🤨"

[–] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I had some Scandinavian colleagues joke with me about how their languages have these melodic intonations and we speak everything in monotone and they can't wrap their heads around it.