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[–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

Exactly! Rapidly changing accent for single words leads to poor understanding, which is the whole point of speech.

A loanword is not a word randomly spoken in another language, it's a word taken from one language into another, which often involves a change in pronunciation.

If you dont acknowledge that, you'd have to acknowledge that the entire French language is just poorly pronounced Latin, which is insane.

"Burrito" is a Spanish word for a little donkey, but it's also an English word for a food item, and they are not typically pronounced the same. Someone fluent in both languages will pronounce them differently depending on which language they are speaking.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I doubt you pronounce tortilla "tour-till-uh" or Coup d'état "coop-dee-tat." Sometimes we change the pronunciation and sometimes we don't.

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  • Yeah, but I would argue that when I say "pass me a tortilla" I'm saying "tortilla" in English, which has mostly the same pronunciation as the Spanish (though I think the "t" is pronounced differently).

    The fact that "coup d'etat" is pronounced mostly the same might just be happenstance.

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