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[-] JackLSauce@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago

...independently measured at [37cm], and a cast of it has been included in a museum in Iceland.

I have questions for Iceland; mostly about how to pronounce ð but we'll get to that later

[-] quick_snail@feddit.nl 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Is that flacid or erect length?

Edit: its erect length. When flacid, it was 25cm long

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The fucked up pronunciation in Icelandic comes from when you put to Ls together, e.g. Eyjafjallajökull. It makes an almost click sound. You can hear it on the wiki below.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyjafjallaj%C3%B6kull

[-] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 20 hours ago

It's pronounced like the "th" in "weather."

[-] Senseless@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago
[-] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 20 hours ago

Sort of. ð is the Icelandic rendering for both edh and thorn, depending on context. Edh is voiced, thorn isn't.

[-] JackLSauce@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

It's the "unvoiced" part that confuses me

[-] dandelion 3 points 22 hours ago

voiced th is like this, that, mother

unvoiced th like thick, thimble, thirty

notice how the voiced th has a buzzing vocalization during the th sound, you can feel your teeth buzzing as you say the th in this

but when you pronounce thirty that buzzing is absent and the first buzzing starts with the i (the vowel is the first voiced part).

[-] Senseless@feddit.org 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

similar to th as in the English word thick, or a (usually apical) voiced alveolar non-sibilant fricative [ð̠],[2][3] similar to th as in the English word the

Should do the trick, no?

[-] MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

uh, a 14er. Climbers everywhere, rejoice.

[-] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

Like a T, but slide your tongue forward a little so it's against your teeth

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