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Is it "comrad" or "comrayd"? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Which is it? Which do you use? Are there different associations between them?

I've always said it "comrad," but when I started to meet people in orgs, they predominantly say "comrayd" (within the same country).

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Just stick with /tʰʊŋ³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵¹/ honestly. If you accidentally use it on an anti-communist you can just say you thought they were a fellow member of the LGBT community.

(I'm American and say comrad)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

is that a rendering of 同志 in... IPA? doesn't look like IPA to me but I have little knowledge of it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah it's the Sinological IPA I got from Wiktionary lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

TIL how IPA does tone marks with those small numbers. very cool

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

There are a few different ways IPA can represent tone. I've more commonly seen tone represented with ˩ ˨ ˧ ˦ ˥ which can form ligatures like ˦˧˥

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Well that's how Sinological IPA does it anyway