pronounciation

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pronounciation

Post by N30F15H »

my sister wantedto know how to pronounce 'dulce'

could anyone help me?

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Post by Amy »

Dool-kay...(Best guess, you should try googling "latin pronunciation")

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Post by N30F15H »

thanks...thats what i thought it was

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It always seems odd to me to pronounce a latin 'e' as 'ay'. Shouldn't it be much shorter than that, as in 'and' or 'as'?
“Cum ego verbo utar,” Humpty Dumpty dixit voce contempta, “indicat illud quod optem – nec plus nec minus.”
“Est tamen rogatio” dixit Alice, “an efficere verba tot res indicare possis.”
“Rogatio est, “Humpty Dumpty responsit, “quae fiat magister – id cunctum est.”

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Post by benissimus »

It should be between "eh" and "ay", but it is difficult to describe sounds that we don't have in our own language with examples from our language :?
flebile nescio quid queritur lyra, flebile lingua murmurat exanimis, respondent flebile ripae

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