r/TikTokCringe • u/Constant-Service9269 • 5d ago

Cringe This is the current generation

Lying down in a feild just for your Instagram and teenage boys heckle you

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u/Sealegs_Calisto 5d ago

I’m pretty sure that’s not How you pronounce “ahh”

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u/BedbugBandido 5d ago edited 5d ago

That’s because they’re pronouncing it the way it’s spelled and it’s been spelled wrong since the beginning. It should’ve been spelled “ă” or if you wanna get technical “æ”.

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u/quagmirranseye 5d ago

Ä

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u/Pomodorosan 5d ago edited 5d ago

No. “ă” and “æ” made sense, "ä" is just you using random accents to make a silly "a".

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u/divadschuf 5d ago edited 5d ago

But ä is literally the pronunciation of the a in ass. Just like æ which is just part of the international phonetically alphabet. How is ă different to ä according to your description of just using random accents?

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English is one of the rare languages where they write a while it‘s not pronounced as /a/ anymore but as /æ/, /ɑː/, /ɒ/, /ɔː/, /ɛː/, /eɪ/, /ə/.

An ä on the other hand is pronounced in most languages that use it as either an /æ/ or /ə/, which is literally the pronunciation of ahh.

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u/Pomodorosan 5d ago

The difference is in my assumption of their intent. You're right, ä fits well

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u/justacheesyguy 5d ago

And the person they replied to was using non-random accents to make a silly “a”.

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u/Pomodorosan 5d ago edited 5d ago

Their goal was beyond making a silly "a"; they were making an accurate "a".