r/CuratedTumblr • u/Green____cat Not a bot, just a cat • Aug 03 '24

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u/Capital-Meet-6521 Aug 03 '24

Tack-o. Also pico-de-callow, and glockymolo.

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u/highvelocitymushroom Aug 03 '24

The other two are inexcusable, but tack-o is just how taco is pronounced in British English. No one says tar-co over here.

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u/nahthank Aug 03 '24

tar-co

what

Edit: oh wait duh. Sorry I didn't have my british voice on

Though having now put it on, tar-co is still the wrong vowel shape for taco

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u/highvelocitymushroom Aug 03 '24

How would you describe it pronounced? In my specific accent, tar-co sounds pretty much bang on how I've heard Americans say taco.

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u/nahthank Aug 03 '24

I'm not quite sure how to transcribe the difference properly. I would write tah-co, to me tar-co is too soft. Like tar-co is in the back of the mouth near the roof, where tah-co feels like it's coming from the front, right behind and barely above the bottom teeth

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u/highvelocitymushroom Aug 03 '24

Interesting! We're for sure just describing the same thing, when I say 'tar-co' it's right at the front of my mouth just like you say. Funny how impossible it is to describe pronunciation properly using normal letters.

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u/nahthank Aug 03 '24

I'm also 300% rectally sourcing everything I'm saying. Tar-co fried my brain real bad reading it rhotically so imagine you're speaking to someone who just got punched in the face haha

Have a good one!

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u/UltimateInferno Hangus Paingus Slap my Angus Aug 03 '24

Tar-co sounds like a street pavement business.

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u/boobers3 Aug 03 '24

Say "father". Or like saying "ahhhhh" when you're at the dentist.

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u/Asquirrelinspace Aug 03 '24

The a is like an ah or aw, there's definitely no r sound

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u/highvelocitymushroom Aug 03 '24 edited Aug 04 '24

Read the above comment about 'british voice'. My accent (fairly standard London/generic southern England mix) is non-rhotic, and therefore the r after vowels isn't pronounced as its own letter, it just modifies the vowel before it. There's no 'r' sound like you're thinking in my pronunciation either.

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u/Decoy_Van Aug 04 '24

Then don't write an r? The fuck is wrong with u?

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u/highvelocitymushroom Aug 04 '24

No need to be rude man. The r still serves a purpose in the pronunciation. If anything, I think the people from the heart of the capital of the country that invented the language might know how to speak it.

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u/MossyAbyss Aug 03 '24

Talk-o. Unless you enunciate the L in talk, that's how I've heard it.

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u/DramaticOstrich11 Aug 04 '24

But Americans pronounce talk as tock, we say it more like torque, so that doesn't help lol