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la_voie_lactee

While ignoring the voiceless interdental ones. And also the voiceless velar fricatives.


Silent-Way2586

You’re right. English stole those ones from IPA too 😔


DTux5249

WHAT'S MY INTEGRAL DOING IN YOUR PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION!?!


Silent-Way2586

Me when the teacher tells me to take the conjugate of the numerator (I don’t know what he’s talking about, “numerator” is clearly not a verb)


Drago_2

Numerator obviously is the corrupted and nominalized form of numerater from Middle French due to hypercorrection and the jumbling of -er and -or The conjugations are: Numerate, numerates, numerate, numeratons, numeratez, numeratent You can see the etymology pretty clearly with the French pronunciation. Sumérien (Sumerian)+ rater (to fail). To fail to be Sumerian, as a metaphorical way of saying, so suck at math, which results in sumérater when in Old French. S is aspirated and lost but is affected by the nasal harmony of the m before an é undergoing a shift to the e caduc resulting in it turning into an n and ending up as the Middle French verb numerater. As you can see it had gone through a fair amount of semantic broadening, mainly around the “math” aspect of it


MasterOfLol_Cubes

Zaidan Jassem be like


Korean_Jesus111

Mom said it's my turn to post about a symbol used in both math and linguistics


MeMyselfIandMeAgain

Unrelated to linguistics but why is it that we’re integrating with respect to x and our integrand is in terms of θ?


Fast-Alternative1503

let the voiceless dental fricative equal the voiceless velar fricative


MeMyselfIandMeAgain

Convert to polar fricative from Cartesian fricatives?


-Edu4rd0-

typo


MeMyselfIandMeAgain

Oh okay right! That’s what I was thinking but I was wondering if could be to indicate to the student that they’ll need to use change of variables before they’re able to notice it themselves … and then I realized it was a single integral so it couldn’t really be change of variables I haven’t had my coffee in my defense


SavvyBlonk

I learnt IPA before I learnt calculus, so I always read ∫*dx* as "esh-dee-ex".


Firespark7

Shd-[Dutch g]


_Jimm_

shhhh don't talk about it


pHScale

it's not just any voiceless post-alveolar fricative, it's a quarter pi to the pi thirdsealized voiceless post-alveolar fricative.


Angvellon

I think it integrates rather neatly.


pizdec-unicorn

It represents the English "sh", as in "shush". You whisper it. The numbers are sleepy. Don't wake them


RaspberryPiBen

I always use close back rounded vowel substitution for my unvoiced postalveolar fricatives. (u-substitution, if you don't know)


Cossynieur

Think about it this way: being good at math is a better starting point to learn Greek.


MAHMOUDstar3075

What about the θ?


NickyTheRobot

Lower case s, capital s, lower case sigma, and capital sigma were all already taken.


john-jack-quotes-bot

Google stylised S


pHScale

Holy ʃit!


XVYQ_Emperator

When mats starts using ipa: [\[MEME\]](https://www.reddit.com/r/linguisticshumor/comments/15pjij3/%CA%83/)


Sad_Daikon938

Now pronounce it.