Monophthongization Puns

Is monophthongization generally more rare than diphthongization? If so, can anyone give me a scientific source (preferably online)?

Thanks a bunch

For example, if a language only contrasted the monophthongs /i u a/, would it be possible for it to have the diphthong /ei/? Or would it be limited to combinations of its monophthongs?

I've read that the /I/ phoneme is for words like Pink, and /i/ is for words like Green. But I Just can't tell the difference. The only difference I noted is that Ship /I/ sounds less time than sheep /i/.

As someone who is spanish native (only 5 vowel sounds) this looks like a scam to me. A salesman who wants to sell me the same vowel sound saying that they are two different ones. LMAO.

I know there is a very important life and death difference between both. Just imagine drowning in the sea because you choose to travel in a sheep instead of a ship.

From my understanding, hiatus means that two neighboring vowels are pronounced individually without joining like Japanese does. Meanwhile, diphthong means that two neighboring vowels are joined into one sound like house in English or Feuer in German. So when Wikipedia referred that highest Alemannic doesn’t have hiatus diphthongisation, does it mean it doesn’t split vowels into two sound (like Japanese), or does it mean that it simply prohibit neighboring vowels (which I think according to their example).

Yet if they’re prohibiting neighboring vowels, why I see words like „schnii“.

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

thanks u/yatalu for explaining that if there’s a L at the end the e is the same as if there’s a R!

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

When pronouncing “new” and “rude”, I don’t say [nu] and [ɹud].

I instead say something along the lines of [nuʷ] and [ɹuʷd]. Or [nuw] and [ɹuwd]. There is “extra rounding” toward the end of the vowel.

I then compare this to words in Spanish (I have moderate fluency), such as “tu” and “gusto”, and I don’t hear the “extra rounding”. This leaves me with [tu] and [gusto].

Despite this difference, is [u] still a monophthong (even in these “alternate” forms [uʷ] and/or [uw])?

I have learned throughout my linguistics courses that sometimes an IPA symbol is used to represent different sounds in different languages, for the sake of simplicity and mutual understanding.

For example the English sound “k” is pronounced [kʰ], but often written as [k] because it is understood that English k’s are aspirated and it is not in contrastive distribution with [k]. Is this the case with [u]?

Could this just be that I’m from northern California?

EDIT: changed // to []

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

When I got home, they were still there.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

I won't be doing that today!

In English most* Old French loanwords with <aiC> end up pronounced /iː/ and spelled <ea> (eg "reason" "feat" "feasible" "treaty") but "aid" is spelled as in French and pronounced /eɪ/. Is this a borrowing from a different period of French than the others, or what's going on?

EDIT: Looking in the OED "ead" was a variant of "aid" in earlier English.

* before it gets mentioned in the comments, OF <ain> is an exception, eg. "grain" "(Middle English) pain [bread]", "chain"

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This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

Where ever you left it 🤷‍♀️🤭

You take away their little brooms

There hasn't been a post all year!

It was about a weak back.

It may seem like a dumb question, but i mean, like: is it just the tongue position, or does the way you breath, the way you hold tension in your jaw, throat, your nose, where your resonate the sounds (some people call if 'placement', look it up if you don't know what it is), etc., also plays a part? I mean, i know it probably does, but how much, really? For example, if you relax or hold tension in your throat in a different way when speaking your native language, you do sound different, yes, but would you say you still sound native, even if it sounds a little bit weird? Another example: you can also try making your voice more nasal, it would sound a bit funny, yes, but you would still sound native, probably. You know what i mean?

So i guess my question is, what is/are the most important thing(s) that ultimately will make you sound native in a language? Is it just the tongue position, placement...? What do you think?