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.
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.
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.
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.
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.