/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.1722393]

fellow linguists here?
where are the syllable breaks in the words 'committee' and 'comedy'?

[Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva No.1722400]

com/mit/tee

com/ed/y

actually i dont know

[Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva No.1722413]

english is pretty confusing

[Anonymous No.1722419]

com-mit-tee
c-omed-y

i dunno

[Anonymous No.1722426]

>>1722400
well there's only one [m] sound in committee so having it in two different syllables...

[Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva No.1722431]

>>1722419
>c-omed-y
>c is it's own syllable

[Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva No.1722437]

>>1722426
if you stress the o then yeah

i don't think most people do

[Anonymous No.1722441]

co/mmitee and there isn't any in comedy,THERE JUST ISN'T.

[Anonymous No.1722442]

>>1722437
if you stress the 'o' then it's comedy
and there's only one [m] in there regardless

[Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva No.1722456]

>>1722442
>he doesn't know how stress in english works

[Anonymous No.1722458]

>>1722456
dude...you don't have any idea...

[Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva No.1722465]

>>1722458
why don't you actually say something next time you post

[Anonymous No.1722468]

>>1722465
thanks for the bumps and all but you can leave whenever you want to

[Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva No.1722469]

>>1722441
>doesn't know how syllables work

/lit/ is too much

[Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva No.1722471]

>>1722468
lol
>try to help some kid with his homework
>he is blatantly wrong about everything and won't accept the help he asks for
>gets pissy

i'm willing to forgive you but you must take my advice

[Anonymous No.1722476]

>>1722471
have you ever even taken an introductory Linguistics class?
you seem to think that there's some relationship between syllable boundaries and orthography
you're way out of your element

[Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva No.1722478]

>>1722476
stop with all the jargon

im just giving you advice from the heart

[Brownbear !Wfn4kkpLag!!fEGZw8wphGR No.1722482]

fab just got TOLD

[None !gUILt.6Nyo No.1722486]

well thanks /lit/
I couldn't think of anywhere else to go with my linguistics questions and this becomes a bitchfest
maybe I'll go back to /sp/ and make a power ranking about it

[Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva No.1722488]

>>1722482
>uses words like "told"

guys im scared about Y2K oh and britney spears is fucking amazing lol i love the 90s

[Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva No.1722490]

>>1722486
i already told you

i know everything about linguistics

[Brownbear !Wfn4kkpLag!!fEGZw8wphGR No.1722497]

>>1722488
>>1722488
>'uses words like "told"
>>1722490
>>1722490
>i already told you
>already told you
>told you
>told

...

[Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva No.1722501]

>>1722497
we weren't using them in the same way

duh

[Anonymous No.1722513]

comm-i-tee
com-e-dy

unless you're singing it, in which case it's bad form to stretch out consonant sounds at the end of a syllable

[Brownbear !Wfn4kkpLag!!fEGZw8wphGR No.1722523]

>>1722501
>>1722501
>complains about the word 'told apparently being from the 1990's
>uses the word 'duh'

[Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva No.1722546]

>>1722523
>duh is from the 90s
>he's doesn't know about merry melodies (the movie that started it):

it's from like the fucking 40s

[Anonymous No.1722555]

Linguist here.
In spelling, it would be one thing.
In actual linguistic terms, you disregard spelling and pay attention to phonetic and phonological properties.
I'm not gonna transcribe this into real IPA, but here goes:
/ko.'mI.ti/ - and actually the t of the last syllable would be ambisyllabic since the previous sylable is stressed and the the next one unstressed.
/ka.me.di/ - and the m of the second vowel would be ambisyllabic for the same reasons as above.

[Brownbear !Wfn4kkpLag!!fEGZw8wphGR No.1722568]

>>1722546
>>1722546
>merry melodies
>movie
BAHAHAHAHAHAHA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrie_Melodies

>thinks told is from the 1990's
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva No.1722641]

>>1722568
>>1722568
the way you used it is

do i have to spell if out lol