Comments on: Pronunciation: A Matter of Life and Death https://languageonthemove.com/pronunciation-a-matter-of-life-and-death/ Multilingualism, Intercultural communication, Consumerism, Globalization, Gender & Identity, Migration & Social Justice, Language & Tourism Wed, 22 Jan 2025 04:49:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: ‘A Little Linguistics’ in the English Literature Classroom – The Teaching Spiral https://languageonthemove.com/pronunciation-a-matter-of-life-and-death/#comment-111337 Wed, 22 Jan 2025 04:49:50 +0000 http://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=6462#comment-111337 […] I am sure there are more such examples and there is probably a quirky linguistics professor somewhere who can regale us with more such examples, but I don’t know of any. A few anecdotes from history, however, can be found in an entry for Shibboleth in languageonthemove.com. […]

]]> By: Why doesn’t Alexa know that homonyms aren’t homophones? – Terence Eden’s Blog https://languageonthemove.com/pronunciation-a-matter-of-life-and-death/#comment-99746 Sun, 04 Jun 2023 11:36:05 +0000 http://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=6462#comment-99746 […] As we head unto an AI dominated future, the Turing test will probably become less like a Voight-Kampff test and more like a warzone Shibboleth. […]

]]> By: barbara tiemeier https://languageonthemove.com/pronunciation-a-matter-of-life-and-death/#comment-97294 Mon, 24 Oct 2022 08:09:16 +0000 http://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=6462#comment-97294 I learned of the ceci in Italian class. pronounced chay chee in Italian, means chickpeas. The French couldn’t quite pronounce it and so were identified. I find languages very interesting.

]]> By: [Vacation] Lost my ♥ in Washington DC | FrauBrit shoppt https://languageonthemove.com/pronunciation-a-matter-of-life-and-death/#comment-45318 Fri, 30 May 2014 11:14:58 +0000 http://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=6462#comment-45318 […] Das englische Lieblingswort meiner Mutter – ein Squirrel. Überall in den Parks hüpften diese kleinen, sehr zutraulichen (die haben sogar aus der Hand gefressen!) Viecherchen rum – und bei der Gelegenheit habe ich gleich gelernt, dass Squirrel in Zeiten des Krieges ein Schibboleth war: ein Wort an den man einen Ausländer wegen der falschen Betonung erkennen konnte (ein deutsches Schibboleth ist übrigens Streichholzschächtelchen). Interessante Sache, diese Schibboleths. Lest doch hier mal nach! […]

]]> By: khan https://languageonthemove.com/pronunciation-a-matter-of-life-and-death/#comment-4852 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 08:32:23 +0000 http://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=6462#comment-4852 Such a dismal and horrible reality . Thanks Ingrid for the post. Very enlightening.

We have also witnessed such killings where the pronunciation of a particular word was used to distinguish between real! Sindhi Speakers or unreal. And in the latter case, execution.

Khan

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