Talk:naur
Add topicLatest comment: 2 years ago by Overlordnat1 in topic RFV discussion: April–May 2022
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“(Internet slang) Pronunciation spelling of no, representing Australia English.” Tagged by Jberkel on 7 April, not listed. J3133 (talk) 09:51, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
- Looks more like Geordie to me. Overlordnat1 (talk) 08:46, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
I have cited this from Google News. Kiwima (talk) 04:18, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
- This is probably the most inaccurate ‘pronunciation’ spelling to have ever passed the verification process but unfortunately you have done an impressive job of attesting it. The question now is what pronunciation should we add to the entry? Should it be the same as the Scottish naw? (by which I mean IPA(key): /nɔː/ not IPA(key): /nɑ/ of course, I see no logic in listing a Canadian pronunciation for a Scottish pronunciation spelling at all but that’s a different issue). I suppose we could just use nəʉ along the lines of the Australian pronunciation we have for go but the spelling naur is crazy, we’ll be having gaur for go next! Overlordnat1 (talk) 18:31, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
- Tangent about naw: I suspect we should just expand the label "(Scotland, US, Jamaica)" in naw to "(Scotland, US, Canada, Jamaica)". I also regard naw as being, like nah (or yeah, or paw vs pa), a colloquial word for no rather than a "pronunciation spelling"; it is found even in text that spells things standardly. Indeed, I'm going to change the entry [naw] because I find it used by speakers who also use no in the same sentence ("but naw, no girlfriend"), clinching that it's a distinct word and not just "how certain dialects pronounce no". (Compare e.g. google books:"yes sir, yeah".) Naur, OTOH, seems to indeed be an attempt to represent Australian pronunciation of no, whether accurately or not, rather than a separate word. - -sche (discuss) 05:03, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
- You’ve succeeded in improving the entry. I shall, however, continue to roll my eyes at any and all North American or Irish attempts to represent what is clearly an ah sound ‘phonetically’ as aw (and also the naur abomination) 😂 Overlordnat1 (talk) 09:18, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
- Tangent about naw: I suspect we should just expand the label "(Scotland, US, Jamaica)" in naw to "(Scotland, US, Canada, Jamaica)". I also regard naw as being, like nah (or yeah, or paw vs pa), a colloquial word for no rather than a "pronunciation spelling"; it is found even in text that spells things standardly. Indeed, I'm going to change the entry [naw] because I find it used by speakers who also use no in the same sentence ("but naw, no girlfriend"), clinching that it's a distinct word and not just "how certain dialects pronounce no". (Compare e.g. google books:"yes sir, yeah".) Naur, OTOH, seems to indeed be an attempt to represent Australian pronunciation of no, whether accurately or not, rather than a separate word. - -sche (discuss) 05:03, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
- RFV-passed (unfortunately). Overlordnat1 (talk) 09:15, 19 May 2022 (UTC)