Timeline for I'm called and I think -- the same?
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| Feb 22, 2021 at 0:45 | comment | added | yk7 | @snailplane English is not my native language, but there is a notation where vowels have different lengths (e.g. iː vs ɪ). And there seems to be a difference in length between e.g. "bed" (e) and "seed" (iː). Am I wrong? | |
| Jun 2, 2016 at 23:15 | vote | accept | Oskar K. | ||
| May 19, 2016 at 9:57 | comment | added | user1478 | Native speakers of languages like English that don't really have contrasts between short and long vowels might not notice anything different between the two except the consonant in し. That is, they might not hear the difference between とお and と, or between も and もう, because their native languages haven't prepared them to hear the difference. So for a non-Japanese speaker, the two words might sound surprisingly similar! | |
| May 19, 2016 at 0:42 | history | answered | ishikun | CC BY-SA 3.0 |