• @Mothra@mander.xyz
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    104 days ago

    Not maymays, mehmehs. ( If you want to make something in Spanish sound like “maymays”, you need to spell it “meimeis”)

    • teft
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      14 days ago

      Not to my american raised ears. I live in colombia and have for nearly a decade. To my ears the spanish “e” sound is most similar to the english sound “ay” as in hay or may but shorter. I’ve never heard someone make the phoneme “eh” here in colombia.

        • teft
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          24 days ago

          I think we might just be using different orthography to get the same sound. I hear her say ay-may.