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minus-squarerumba@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 day agoThen can we force SciFi audiobook narrators to use it? Ray Porter, I love you to fucking death, but you kill me sometimes…
minus-squarechiliedogg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 day agoI loved The Expanse, and Jefferson Mays is amazing But “jimbals” drove me crazy For Ray Porter, his inability to pronounce “Archimedes” was bad enough they made him go back and re-record a book.
minus-squarerumba@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoOh god yes the jimbles on Mays, I had forgotten about that, every time he would say that my brain would go “the what?” It would suck me right out of immersion every damn time.
minus-squareDharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·22 hours agoHaving not read this (yet! It’s planned) what is the word and how is supposed to be pronounced?
minus-squarerumba@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·20 hours agohttps://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/gimbal There’s audio for us and UK here.
minus-squarebss03@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·21 hours agoHard-g; “gimbals” see “gimbal lock”
minus-squareSaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·19 hours agoIs this one of those gif - jiff type situations?
minus-squarebss03@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·19 hours agoI don’t know what the etymology of “gimbal” is… Looks like the precursor words all use soft-g, and wiktionary even says soft-g is an allowed pronunciation. So, yes, I think.
Then can we force SciFi audiobook narrators to use it?
Ray Porter, I love you to fucking death, but you kill me sometimes…
I loved The Expanse, and Jefferson Mays is amazing
But “jimbals” drove me crazy
For Ray Porter, his inability to pronounce “Archimedes” was bad enough they made him go back and re-record a book.
Oh god yes the jimbles on Mays, I had forgotten about that, every time he would say that my brain would go “the what?” It would suck me right out of immersion every damn time.
Having not read this (yet! It’s planned) what is the word and how is supposed to be pronounced?
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/gimbal
There’s audio for us and UK here.
Hard-g; “gimbals” see “gimbal lock”
Is this one of those gif - jiff type situations?
I don’t know what the etymology of “gimbal” is…
Looks like the precursor words all use soft-g, and wiktionary even says soft-g is an allowed pronunciation.
So, yes, I think.