That word is almost unpronounceable in Latvian, where you pronounce words as they are written.
How about names that people in slums give their children?
Like "Ladi Dai"....
Or maybe names that celebrities give their chidren...
Like "Rocket" and "Apple"....
... how about "Riverdance"!!!!![]()
No, I mean, you can not pronounce a word differently than the letters in it say.As they are written? But, sure, the way a letter is interpreted to sound like varies in every language. For example, in German, 'J' is pronounced 'Y', but that's just how they interpret it. It's still 'the way it's written' from a German person's point of view.
No, I mean, you can not pronounce a word differently than the letters in it say.
A=[A] and B= not like in English A=[ei] and B=[bi].
I'm not linguist and am terrible at explaining these things.
You can pronounce each individual letter separately and in Latvian (and other eastern European languages) it will still be pronounced as that word.
Example: S. A. U. L. E. will be pronounced exactly as the whole word SAULE (Sun).
So in Latvian it would be meaningless to write: this word such and such is pronounced like that and that.
Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhonemeLatvian spelling has almost perfect correspondence between graphemes and phonemes. Every phoneme has its own letter so that a reader need not learn how a word is pronounced, but simply pronounce it.