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Eddie Kal

01:14

Q: Do native speakers distinguish well the pronunciations of "L" and "R"?

Sometimes I have a problem in distinguishing "L" and "R" in spoken English. I wonder if native speakers distinguish well the pronunciations of "L" and "R". For example, how about "leave" and "reave" or "elect" and "erect"?

@Void If you know of a good duplicate target for this question we can duplicate it.

I am not very happy about the answers under that question. But I am glad the quality of pronunciation answers on the site has been elevated, thanks to you.

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Void

07:29

@Eddie: Didn't find a dupe.... I'll see if I can answer it.. but it's opinion-based.

Eddie Kal

07:55

@Void If you can do a detailed write-up by all means.

The issue I have with some of the answers in this post--and I had the exact same issue with another similarly old and well-received post on Japanese SE--is that there is no good answers giving an accurate description of the pronunciation details in accurate terms

A lot of those answers just spread popular misconceptions about pronunciation and languages

I know they mean no harm or disrespect

But some of the views are still highly problematic

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user 85795

12:14

@EddieKal np

Welcome back @snailplane

user 85795

12:55

Oct 8 '20 at 3:04, by skullpatrol

Oct 2 at 9:22, by skillpatrol

I hope you didn't mind me hitching a ride.
I had some mail to deliver.

:-)

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SmokeDetector

15:44

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer (94): What does “short change” mean? by SheltonHilpert on ell.SE

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Eddie Kal

19:28

@Tsundoku

I need your help with this question

Q: Emotion or Expression words meaning Dictionary

When I watch TV with my closed captioned on, and sometimes there are words that I want to know what it means. My question is Are there some good sites that will help me what the Emotion or Expression words means ? What are the term for that? I am hearing impaired and sometimes there are a few wo...

word-meaning expressions american-english

I seem to recall you mentioning that you are specialized in this or a related field?

This question is of course off topic on ELL, but I'd like your input on how we can better help this person

I have worked with a lot of visually and/or audibly challenged/impaired people and I always feel deeply for them.

Tsundoku

19:58

That's not an easy question. Sign language translation is what would work best but you can't simply hire a sign language interpreter to translate a film for you...

And sign language avatars for automatic translations ... Well, there was one under development for a long time by VCom3D, but they appeared to have abandoned that.

What we would need is something like the sign language equivalent of fansubs. I have no idea if that has ever been tried (I'm not optimistic about this).

Eddie Kal

20:19

@Tsundoku Is there an SE site where this question would be on topic and likely to receive helpful answers?

Tsundoku

@EddieKal With some good will it can be interpreted as a language learning question. (When interpreting it as a request for a language learning resource.) But I doubt anyone at Language Learning SE who could provide an answer.

But I could draw attention to it from the accessibility community.

Eddie Kal

@Tsundoku Okay, so let's do this. I won't mod hammer the question, just someone here has helpful information. Let's wait for the community to take its course which is expected to happen in a day or two. And I will migrate it to LL

Thanks

Tsundoku

You're welcome :-)

Eddie Kal

This really calls up some old memories.

This is the reason I came to SE in the first place

I came to ELL at a time when I was volunteering at a facility that helps visually impaired people

Tsundoku

Oh, really?

Eddie Kal

20:29

And I was helping them with film audio description

And then I found out there were words I couldn't make out

So I started posting on ELL questions like "what's this word in this line" with a link to an audio file

Tsundoku

What a coincidence. I'm creating a MOOC on accessibility and I've been writing an introduction to audio description...

Eddie Kal

Wow. That's amazing!

Tsundoku

I maintain a site, or rather a link dump, about digital accessibility at cstrobbe.github.io/AccessibilityResources

(I used to use bookmarks for that, but after switching between operating systems so many times in the last few years, I decided to put it all in HTML files.)

Eddie Kal

@Tsundoku This is pretty cool. I remember reading a similar page you shared in the Reading Room.

Tsundoku

It's one of the sites I maintain on GitHub Pages. I suppose I shared one of the other sites, presumably the one about language learning.

Anonymous

21:26

@user85795 Thanks :-)

Anonymous

@user85795 That's a pretty fancy shell.

Anonymous

@CowperKettle I'm okay!

Anonymous