pruwyben@discuss.tchncs.de to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoDo British people say "brr" when they're cold? If so, how do they pronounce the R?message-squaremessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up176arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up168arrow-down1message-squareDo British people say "brr" when they're cold? If so, how do they pronounce the R?pruwyben@discuss.tchncs.de to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square35fedilinkfile-text
I feel like it would be hard to say “brr” with an English accent, because the soft R would just make it sound like “buh”.
minus-squarenimpnin@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 days agoYou are so close. bzzz is not any closer to the buzzing sound than the japanese buu
minus-squaretiredofsametab@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 days agoI would argue it depends upon the buzzing device, but bzzz for all of them is indeed arbitrary. Even IPA doesn’t represent sounds that humans can’t produce, so it wouldn’t suffice, but them’s the breaks.
minus-squareAatube@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoBut not the vibration. Of buzzing. Like the “gravel”-y type testosterone vibration.
You are so close. bzzz is not any closer to the buzzing sound than the japanese buu
I would argue it depends upon the buzzing device, but bzzz for all of them is indeed arbitrary. Even IPA doesn’t represent sounds that humans can’t produce, so it wouldn’t suffice, but them’s the breaks.
At least it has the vibration.
sound is vibration
But not the vibration. Of buzzing. Like the “gravel”-y type testosterone vibration.