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Question

I need to know what this phrase means. It is on a paper (dido) I have that I don't get.

Answer 1

Oh yes the "carry-okee" thing is horrible! I think Americans in general, were they to order spaghetti bolognese, generally would say the right sounds but with a sort of lack of inflection (i.e. not much emphasis on any particular syllable or syllables).

En Colorado (un estado de los EEUU que es famoso por montañas increíbles) hay un pueblo que se escribe como "Salida," (es decir el lugar donde se sale, en inglés "exit") llamado por los habitantes locales "Sa-LAI-da" - casi como se dice, en inglés, la sustancia secretamos dentro de la boca cuando se dice "me hace agua en la boca". Eso me parece ridículo.

Answer 2

Salida . . .

There's a city in Missouri called El Dorado Springs. Dorado is Dor-ADE-oh, long a. If it didn't have the "El" attached, it wouldn't be quite so aggravating . . .

Answer 3

Just to clarify, I agree that written and ridden are pronounced differently by most people, and my comment was about riding and writing, which I maintain are pronounced the same by most people, or at least VERY similarly, as opposed to the very clear difference in their pronunciation in British English. And I didn't mean to imply that all embedded T sounds are pronounced as D in English, and I agree with samdie that it depends on the word.

In fact, I heard Hugh Laurie, who is a British actor currently playing an American doctor on the hit TV show, House, talking about how he learned to speak like an American. He said one of the main things he had to learn to do was change his T's to D's. Little becomes liddle, better becomes bedder, etc. And, by the way, his American accent is perfect, the best I have ever heard from a non-American.