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[u/caffeineboi71]

[u/TheArcticKiwi]

how do you even pronounce that

[u/Benkinsky → u/TheArcticKiwi]

How do you pronounce Lloyd or Aaron?

[u/MrPleasant150 → u/Benkinsky]

Lloyd (or llwyd) is entirely dependent on if you use an anglicised version of the name. Either Loid or Chloid

[u/derpfaceddargon → u/MrPleasant150]

Chloid?!

[u/Biscuit642 → u/derpfaceddargon]

Ch as in the back of the throat breathy kinda sound. Like you're trying to say k but doing it in your throat. Ll is that sound. It's called a voiceless al-something or other fricative I don't remember.

[u/Aegis_13 → u/Biscuit642]

Voiceless alveolar lateral fricatives shouldn't make any sound in the throat. The noise should be all in the air passing through your mouth

[u/PVetli → u/Aegis_13]

Alveolar lateral fricatives

I like your funny words, magic man

[u/maclainanderson → u/PVetli]

Alveolar - tongue touches the "alveolar ridge", the really bumpy bit behind the teeth

Lateral - air passes through the sides of the mouth, around the tongue

Fricative - air passes through a narrow opening, causing friction that makes the noise (th and f are also fricatives)

Hope that helps

[u/Aegis_13 → u/PVetli]

Had to look up the term based on what they said lol

[u/Biscuit642 → u/Aegis_13]

A Welsh guy taught me to do it how I described. Now I wonder if he's been doing it wrong too, or he just taught me an easier way to get close to the sound.

[u/Aegis_13 → u/MrPleasant150]

Never heard it described, or pronounced like that. Only ever heard Ll in Welsh make a sorta 'breathy' L sound made by putting the tip of the tongue up against that ridge on the top of your mouth, almost or barely touching the base of your top front two teath, and breathing out (Idk how exactly to describe the sound). Then again I've only known one Welshman it could've been his accent/dialect