Believe it or not it’s usually not that hard to string like 3 unfamiliar syllables together if you take a few seconds to put in literally any effort you fuck

  • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]@hexbear.net
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    8 days ago

    I fucking dare any of you to guess what the letter D does in “Mand” or “Mads”.

    Standard voicing/nasalizing harmonization?

    /mand/ -> [mann], /mads/ -> [mats] ?

    • Keld [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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      8 days ago

      That is a very good guess, but not accurate. It indicates the presence of stød and is itself not pronounced. (So no t sounds in Mads, Mads is just “Mass”)

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stød

      It is a form of putting emphasis on a syllable by way of a “glottal stop” (It’s not always quite a glottal stop).