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On the topic of audio, how do you all pronounce ais and ait? When recording myself (American accent), I pronounce ais like the English ice except with a bit of a roll from long-a to long-i, both equally accented. Exaggerated, I would make it sound "ahhhh-eeeee-s." With aio and aiunt, I treat the i as consonantal.
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I do much the same thing. Care must be taken that the combination not quite equal *two* long vowels, putting it out of proportion to any surrounding long syllables.cdm2003 wrote:On the topic of audio, how do you all pronounce ais and ait? When recording myself (American accent), I pronounce ais like the English ice except with a bit of a roll from long-a to long-i, both equally accented. Exaggerated, I would make it sound "ahhhh-eeeee-s." With aio and aiunt, I treat the i as consonantal.
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This bilabial fricative is actually valid for all Spanish-speaking people. It is not confined to Madrid.nostos wrote:and then tentatively concluded that it doesn't happen in Mexico (must be those Castillians!)
Hey, you and me both, man!I'm actually excited about phonetics!
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Sorry, no can do. I can't run Skype on Win98. But it should be possible to describe the sounds we are discussing and looking for. We can use the IPA notation for this purpose.
Lisa: Relax?! I can't relax! Nor can I yield, relent, or... Only two synonyms? Oh my God! I'm losing my perspicacity! Aaaaa!
Homer: Well it's always in the last place you look.
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My recent studies in Korean actually bear relevance to this point. In Korea, the letter for "w" is actually a combination of "u/o" and the appropriate vowel. For instance, the verb "to learn" is "pay - ooh - gi" (배우기) but in its conjugated form, "pay - weo*h - yoh" (배워요). But this really is a contraction of "pay - ooh - eoh - yoh." Notice that "ooh" (= English long u) and "eoh" (= between English "ah" and "oh") combine to make "weoh." This "w" is basically identical to the "w" glide in English. The genius of Korean is to represent the sound not by an independent grapheme but rather by the combination of the two vowels -- just as Latin does (uagio, uado, uenia, etc.)I'm interested in the phonetic logic that converts the U vocalic into a W consonantal sound. I've found that it is certainly not necessary to shift the pronunciation so far forward as English W.
I hope this provides at least a modicum of phonetic respectability to that underdog, the poor beset besieged and besmirched English w!
champion of all poor and underpriveleged semivocalic glides,
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eo* can't be represented by any English vowel, lying somewhere between "ah" and "oh"
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Good idea. I set up the Skype client for Linux last night, it works fine but I need a better microphone. My expensive studio mics aren't adequate for my soundcard's mic input.Lucus Eques wrote:Gentlemen, I propose we convene on Skype to discuss this matter together as soon as possible.
I'll pick up a new mic today and will notify the list when I'm good to go.
Reading Lord's quoted material I must say that the grammarians really gave it their best shot. Describing sound by the mechanics of speech is indeed a difficult task.It's so hard to describe sound; you really just need to hear it.
Very likely. I am thinking a lot about the information shared here, it's an education for me. And my estimation of the work of the grammarians has risen ten-fold. They were doing fundamental work in linguistics before the term was known, and we do owe them a lot.It would make these discussions go a lot faster, and I bet we're actually agreeing more than we realize.
So does anyone know the birthdays of Priscian or Donatus ? I'm always looking for new reasons to celebrate...
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Done. Nothing like a visit to Wal-Mart at 7 AM to jump-start the day.cantator wrote:I'll pick up a new mic today and will notify the list when I'm good to go.
Lucus, we'll need to run some tests, I'm still getting the hang of using Skype (it's pretty easy though) and my audio system. I definitely need to fiddle with some mixer settings for the best balance, but it appears to be working now.
So how do we make a conference call via Skype ?
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I'd like to join in, if that's okay...I'm still at the early stages of learning how to read Latin aloud and would benefit greatly from hearing the "big-guns" discussing the finer points.cantator wrote: So how do we make a conference call via Skype ?
Thanks,
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Cantator, my Skype name is SignorAmadeo, and that's all we need. Just message me, or give me your Skype name here, and tell me a time when you'd like to meet and I'll tell you if I can be there. Then we can invite any other's who'd like to join.
Ditto for the others. I'd like to talk to everyone individually, or as a group; I would enjoy the experience. As for conference call, it's a button in the upper right hand corner; easy to do.
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Ditto for the others. I'd like to talk to everyone individually, or as a group; I would enjoy the experience. As for conference call, it's a button in the upper right hand corner; easy to do.
Valetote.
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Okay, I have everything working well now, or as well as it's going to work with my old 800 MHz machine. Fortunately I have a fast broadband connection. There's a noticeable latency on replies, about what I would expect from making an overseas long-distance call, but the reception sound quality is 1st-rateLucus Eques wrote:Cantator, my Skype name is SignorAmadeo, and that's all we need. Just message me, or give me your Skype name here, and tell me a time when you'd like to meet and I'll tell you if I can be there. Then we can invite any other's who'd like to join.
I am cantator1. I'm located in NW Ohio, and as I write this message the time here is about 6:15 in the morning (I'm an early riser). I'm available from noon to 3:30 Tuesday through Friday, and all day Monday. Weekends I'm in the country and probably won't be able to communicate via Skype on my antique laptop (it's only a PII 366).
I'lll probably be unavailable today, I have an article to write that must go in asap, sorry. Is there a good time for you tomorrow ?
Cool, thanks !Ditto for the others. I'd like to talk to everyone individually, or as a group; I would enjoy the experience. As for conference call, it's a button in the upper right hand corner; easy to do.
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Great! Well, how about we meet tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon, say around 12:30 pm. Loquerisne Latine, care cantator? Iulianus et ego cras Latine loquemur, ut mos est inter nos, ergo et Latine et de rebus Latinis dicendis quacumque praeferamus lingua sermocinabimur.
As for others interested in continuing this debate uiua uoce, or who just want to have a live Latin conversation, I'll be around tomorrow afternoon from about 12:30 pm ET.
As for others interested in continuing this debate uiua uoce, or who just want to have a live Latin conversation, I'll be around tomorrow afternoon from about 12:30 pm ET.
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Nequeo loquere Latine. Scriptor et cantator rusticus in deserto Ohio solus. Huc enim Anglico urbano nemo loquitur, ignorantia orbis totus et stupiditate se immersit. Loci in medio nulli obduro, et vicus hic suget.Lucus Eques wrote:Great! Well, how about we meet tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon, say around 12:30 pm. Loquerisne Latine, care cantator?
But I will tune in.
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I'll try to be there, but by coincidence, my Latin conversation club (currently consisting of me and an Ancient Studies major in his last semester) meets 12-1 on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I suppose I could being my laptop and use the university wireless network, though. We should finish around 12:40.
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The software mixer for your soundcard may include a loopback channel. This channel carries any signal and can be selected for record status, letting you record any sound passing through the card.Lucus Eques wrote:That sounds like a neat idea. I thought there were some way to record conversations in Skype, but I haven't yet found it. Does anyone know of it?
In Linux we have a little gem called JACK. With JACK I can route audio signals freely between applications, e.g. I could run Skype output through a reverb plugin or into an audio recorder. I'm not sure how you do the same thing in Windows or the Mac (JACK supports OSX though).
I'll check the Linux Skype client for an internal recorder. That would certainly make things easier.
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According to the Skype help:
Edit: A quick Internet search brings up this.Skype help wrote:Currently you cannot record your Skypecast from within Skype, however, there are third party products that let you record conversations.
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Minime vero! Si alios adiuvare possim tecum ac aliis colloquens, mihi nihil molis est! Sed egomet quoque alios invitare volo ut nobiscum colloquantur, nam unum Latine audiendo melius est: colloquier scillicet!Lucus Eques wrote:Otherwise, Interaxe, you could just listen in on our conversations; I'm fairly sure Julian and I wouldn't mind.
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And here I am. I gave a try to Cicero's most famous oration, the result is not excellent but I'm too tired now to continue recording (and I'm not an actor) . Basketball training is killing me
I hope you'll also find the rest of the article (and the previous ones in the "Catiline" series) interesting.
Here it is: De M. Ciceronis orationibus in Catilinam, caput tertium.
Quid de eo sentitis?
I hope you'll also find the rest of the article (and the previous ones in the "Catiline" series) interesting.
Here it is: De M. Ciceronis orationibus in Catilinam, caput tertium.
Quid de eo sentitis?
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Psst. Your comments and opinions about an audio section are needed on the advisory board.
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Wikipedia on Latin spelling and pronunciation
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Matthaee, thanks for your energetic recording! The pace is perhaps more rapid and the tone a tad bit more...frantic?...than I would have expected, but the pronunciation sounds spot on to me. In fact, my main objection, at least after listening twice, is the lack of a raised pitch on the crucial "Vivit?" question. That is, it doesn't sound like a question to me.And here I am. I gave a try to Cicero's most famous oration, the result is not excellent but I'm too tired now to continue recording...
Quid de eo sentitis?
I hope to listen to it some more, as I've been doing with the rest of the enjoyable recordings made here at textkit, in the morning as I walk to work. Maybe you can find some time to record another passage!
(If I have any more constructive advice, I'll add it later.)
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And yes, you're right indeedThe pace is perhaps more rapid and the tone a tad bit more...frantic?...than I would have expected
I suppose that's because I am Italian, and it seems that we use to speak quite faster than Englishmen do.
I was so concentrated on pronouncing the two "v"s in quick succession and making the first "i" different from the second one that I forgot to raise the pitch in the second syllable. Maybe also because I could not without a falsetto.my main objection, at least after listening twice, is the lack of a raised pitch on the crucial "Vivit?" question. That is, it doesn't sound like a question to me.
I'll be eagerly waiting for it(If I have any more constructive advice, I'll add it later.)
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My, that certainly was... different. Good job! I love it that someone from Italia finally read some latin and decided to post it on the web. Not only because of the pronunciaton, but also the speed to which we of Mediterranean language are accustomed to. (Prose shouldn't be as affected as poetry.) Would you mind recording someday Medieval Latin? I've heard the Pope, but he has a German accent, so that's not very good.TADW_Elessar wrote:And here I am. I gave a try to Cicero's most famous oration, the result is not excellent but I'm too tired now to continue recording (and I'm not an actor)
Quid de eo sentitis?
Also, perhaps my ears are full of wax, but did I hear a bilabial fricative "v" mixed with the English W?
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P.S.: Your voice reminded me of Bob Dylan
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So, do I take that as a yes? Perhaps something from St. Augustine's Confessiones? Let me look for a passage about time, and then I'll get back to ya.TADW_Elessar wrote:Do you have any suggestion about the text?
Vale.
Lisa: Relax?! I can't relax! Nor can I yield, relent, or... Only two synonyms? Oh my God! I'm losing my perspicacity! Aaaaa!
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