G GoodTaste Key Member Joined Feb 19, 2016 Member Type Student or Learner Native Language Chinese Home Country China Current Location China Sep 22, 2020 #1 Do you pronounce it "using English point com"?
emsr2d2 Moderator Staff member Joined Jul 28, 2009 Member Type English Teacher Native Language British English Home Country UK Current Location UK Sep 22, 2020 #2 "using English dot com". The full stop/period in a web address is always referred to as "dot" in English.
"using English dot com". The full stop/period in a web address is always referred to as "dot" in English.
tzfujimino Key Member Joined Dec 8, 2007 Member Type English Teacher Native Language Japanese Home Country Japan Current Location Japan Sep 22, 2020 #3 Out of curiosity, do you read '.com' as 'point com' in Chinese, GoodTaste?
G GoodTaste Key Member Thread starter Joined Feb 19, 2016 Member Type Student or Learner Native Language Chinese Home Country China Current Location China Sep 22, 2020 #4 The website name can't be written in Chinese. So you have to read it in English letters, one by one. Read "." as "yi dian" (meaning "one point") in Chinese Pinyin.
The website name can't be written in Chinese. So you have to read it in English letters, one by one. Read "." as "yi dian" (meaning "one point") in Chinese Pinyin.
G GoesStation No Longer With Us (RIP) Joined Dec 22, 2015 Member Type Interested in Language Native Language American English Home Country United States Current Location United States Sep 22, 2020 #5 GoodTaste said: Do you pronounce [STRIKE]it[/STRIKE] "using English point com"? Click to expand... [STRIKE]The above is an example of one extraneous word making a sentence nearly incomprehensible.[/STRIKE] [EDIT] I misread the sentence. It's fine. Last edited: Sep 22, 2020
GoodTaste said: Do you pronounce [STRIKE]it[/STRIKE] "using English point com"? Click to expand... [STRIKE]The above is an example of one extraneous word making a sentence nearly incomprehensible.[/STRIKE] [EDIT] I misread the sentence. It's fine.
emsr2d2 Moderator Staff member Joined Jul 28, 2009 Member Type English Teacher Native Language British English Home Country UK Current Location UK Sep 22, 2020 #6 GoesStation said: The above is an example of one extraneous word making a sentence nearly incomprehensible. Click to expand... I'm not sure what you mean. The original made perfect sense to me. Read together with the title, you get: How do you pronounce "usingenglish.com"? Do you pronounce it "using English point com"? On its own, "Do you pronounce "using English point com?" is ungrammatical.
GoesStation said: The above is an example of one extraneous word making a sentence nearly incomprehensible. Click to expand... I'm not sure what you mean. The original made perfect sense to me. Read together with the title, you get: How do you pronounce "usingenglish.com"? Do you pronounce it "using English point com"? On its own, "Do you pronounce "using English point com?" is ungrammatical.
G GoesStation No Longer With Us (RIP) Joined Dec 22, 2015 Member Type Interested in Language Native Language American English Home Country United States Current Location United States Sep 22, 2020 #7 GoodTaste said: Do you pronounce it "using English point com"? Click to expand... emsr2d2 said: I'm not sure what you mean. Click to expand... Hah! I misread the original. For some reason I thought it said "How do you pronounce it "using English point com"?
GoodTaste said: Do you pronounce it "using English point com"? Click to expand... emsr2d2 said: I'm not sure what you mean. Click to expand... Hah! I misread the original. For some reason I thought it said "How do you pronounce it "using English point com"?
Charlie Bernstein VIP Member Joined Jan 28, 2009 Member Type Other Native Language English Home Country United States Current Location United States Nov 1, 2020 #8 YOO-zing EEN-glish dot CAHM.
emsr2d2 Moderator Staff member Joined Jul 28, 2009 Member Type English Teacher Native Language British English Home Country UK Current Location UK Nov 2, 2020 #9 Charlie Bernstein said: EEN-glish dot CAHM Click to expand... Do you really pronounce "English" with a long "ee" at the start?! I understand that in your variant "com" would sound like "cahm" but wouldn't the same thing apply to "dot", making it "daht"?
Charlie Bernstein said: EEN-glish dot CAHM Click to expand... Do you really pronounce "English" with a long "ee" at the start?! I understand that in your variant "com" would sound like "cahm" but wouldn't the same thing apply to "dot", making it "daht"?
T Tarheel VIP Member Joined Jun 16, 2014 Member Type Interested in Language Native Language American English Home Country United States Current Location United States Nov 7, 2020 #10 emsr2d2 said: Do you really pronounce "English" with a long "ee" at the start?! I understand that in your variant "com" would sound like "cahm" but wouldn't the same thing apply to "dot", making it "daht"? Click to expand... I would say: ING-glish
emsr2d2 said: Do you really pronounce "English" with a long "ee" at the start?! I understand that in your variant "com" would sound like "cahm" but wouldn't the same thing apply to "dot", making it "daht"? Click to expand... I would say: ING-glish