Timeline for Guess how to pronounce German words
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| Oct 27, 2017 at 9:54 | comment | added | Jan | @PhilippSiehr CC previous comment. A word that violates your rule (but admittedly is a proper noun) is Konstanz (pronounced with [∫t]). Also, overwhelming but not complete negative for Bavarian for the words you mention (only very small areas very near to the Allgäu may). Erst, however, is pronounced with [∫t] in Bavarian pretty consistently (to provide a different example) | |
| Oct 27, 2017 at 9:52 | comment | added | Jan | @ChristianSievers More correctly, it’s the beginning of a morpheme. | |
| Oct 17, 2017 at 12:10 | vote | accept | DPenner1 | ||
| Oct 16, 2017 at 14:53 | comment | added | hiergiltdiestfu | @PhilippSiehr negative for Saxon | |
| Oct 14, 2017 at 9:03 | comment | added | Christian Sievers | @PhilippSiehr It seems to be more about the beginning of the syllable: Hauptstadt, Gestirn, Gestalt, Versteck, Besteck... | |
| Oct 11, 2017 at 23:28 | answer | added | Lux | timeline score: 10 | |
| Aug 23, 2017 at 7:04 | comment | added | P. Siehr | The problem of "st" can be solved by: If "st" is at the beginning of the word it is prounced soft [∫t]. Examples: Stadt (city), Stuhl (chair), Stuttgart. If it is in the middle of the word, it is pronounced hard [st]. Examples: gestern (yesterday), bester (best), hast ([you] have), Hast (haste). (Same goes for "sp" at beginning and end.) I can't think of words breaking these rules. | |
| Aug 23, 2017 at 6:41 | comment | added | P. Siehr | @LeifWillerts A lot of German dialects contain the softening/flattening of hard sounds, like 'st' (as in the english word "best") to 'sch' (as in the english word "english"), or a hard 't' to a soft 'd' sound. Examples are Schwäbisch (Swabian), kurpfälzisch (dialect of Electoral Palatinate (?)), and probably sächsisch (Saxon), bayrisch (Bavarian). [Hard to tell how word x is spoken in dialect z, if you don't speak it.] About the pronounciation of first or second syllable: I'd say, that you still pronounce the first syllable, and the word just sounds different: ge-stern to ge-schtern. | |
| Aug 22, 2017 at 21:32 | comment | added | Leif Willerts | @P.Siehr which German dialect pronounces the second syllable of "gestern" or "bester"? | |
| Aug 22, 2017 at 20:36 | history | edited | DPenner1 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Edited requirement regex
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| Aug 22, 2017 at 20:34 | comment | added | DPenner1 | @Xenon No, i purposely left that character out of the requirements. I did however, just edit the requirement regex to be a bit more lax - I don't expect people to have to support random uppercase in the middle of a word, just at the start. Also, no need to support 'ß' at start of word. | |
| Aug 22, 2017 at 20:00 | comment | added | Lux | Do we need to take 'ẞ' as well as 'ß'? | |
| Aug 22, 2017 at 19:28 | history | edited | user58826 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 22, 2017 at 15:30 | comment | added | P. Siehr | @LeakyNun Well, your program will also be able to deal with German dialects, so it is more powerful. | |
| May 16, 2017 at 12:01 | comment | added | DPenner1 | @LeakyNun There's no 100% algorithm for this, but your implementation only needs to get 75%. My reference implementation also gets those words wrong. | |
| May 16, 2017 at 8:15 | comment | added | Leaky Nun | How should I know "gestern" is pronounced "GHES-tern" instead of "ge-SHTERN"? "bester" as "BEST-er" not "be-SHTER"? | |
| May 16, 2017 at 6:39 | history | edited | Laikoni |
added relevant tag
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| May 15, 2017 at 23:35 | comment | added | DPenner1 | @JungHwanMin I read your comment as follows: Immediate heart attack, sigh of relief. | |
| May 15, 2017 at 23:12 | comment | added | JungHwan Min |
Mathematica has a built-in for this (#~WordData~"PhoneticForm"&), but it works only for English words.
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| May 15, 2017 at 23:12 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackCodeGolf/status/864257254182313984 | ||
| May 15, 2017 at 22:30 | history | asked | DPenner1 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |