Nov 18, 2009 15:20
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favorite (stretched)
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One of my characters, a young playful lady, stretches words once in a while to emphasize their meaning. How should I properly spell that?
context: "My *** people," she stretched each syllable.
***=favorite
"fey-ver-it" ??
Is there a general rule?
Thank you.
context: "My *** people," she stretched each syllable.
***=favorite
"fey-ver-it" ??
Is there a general rule?
Thank you.
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Nov 18, 2009 17:28: Tony M changed "Term asked" from "favorite (stretched), here" to "favorite (stretched)"
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Maria Fokin
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English term (edited):
favorite (stretched), here
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faaaaaaaaaaaaavorite
if you just want to stretch the word and not emphasize the syllables, this is how I have always seen it.
look at the google search:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org....
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obviously, the number of A's you put in is up to you.
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yes and no... the first syllable is already the stressed syllable. there is no way to "stretch" the other syllables without the word sounding strange when spoken.
so, if you want to emphasize the word you would "stretch" the stressed syllable or you would emphasize every syllable by pausing between them, fa-vor-ite, as suggested by Veronika.
it's a matter pf personal preference.
for a playful young lady i feel this way fits better.
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if an emphasis needs to be placed on one of the non stressed syllables that's usually done by just shifting the stress and possibly pausing after the syllable.. faVORite or favorITE. so Veronika's version is basically stressing all three syllables. but IMXO this breaks the flow of the word.
when i try to think how i would achieve the same thing in russian i end up overemphasizing the stressed syllable as well. замечАтельно and if i want to stretch it out замечааательно. same thing.
look at the google search:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org....
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Note added at 13 mins (2009-11-18 15:34:14 GMT)
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obviously, the number of A's you put in is up to you.
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Note added at 8 hrs (2009-11-18 23:33:23 GMT)
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yes and no... the first syllable is already the stressed syllable. there is no way to "stretch" the other syllables without the word sounding strange when spoken.
so, if you want to emphasize the word you would "stretch" the stressed syllable or you would emphasize every syllable by pausing between them, fa-vor-ite, as suggested by Veronika.
it's a matter pf personal preference.
for a playful young lady i feel this way fits better.
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Note added at 9 hrs (2009-11-19 00:41:47 GMT)
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if an emphasis needs to be placed on one of the non stressed syllables that's usually done by just shifting the stress and possibly pausing after the syllable.. faVORite or favorITE. so Veronika's version is basically stressing all three syllables. but IMXO this breaks the flow of the word.
when i try to think how i would achieve the same thing in russian i end up overemphasizing the stressed syllable as well. замечАтельно and if i want to stretch it out замечааательно. same thing.
Note from asker:
| This would just emphasize the first syllable, wouldn't it? |
| see, in russian, i would probably say "за-ме-ча-тель-но" which is, basically, veronica's english version. that would meet the goal of drawing out the syllables. my whole confusion was caused by some options i saw in google books search. for instance, for "Nicole," a name, the spelling of a drawn-out version pronounced by a character was "Nee-Kohl." thank you for all your help |
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English term (edited):
favorite (stretched), here
two ways of stretching the word
There are two ways to pronounce this word. Please see link below:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/favorite
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/favorite
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English term (edited):
favorite (stretched), here
faaavorite
I don't think there's a general rule! But my gut instinct is to stay close to the original spelling. If you intend to convey an actually long, drawn-out way of saying the word, repeat the vowel on the stressed syllable.
I think dashes would indicate an emphatic or deliberate way of speaking, but not necessarily drawn out.
For reference's sake, "faaavorite" "faaaavorite" and "faaaaavorite" all get tens of thousands of hits on google.
Relatedly, I'd personally call this speech pattern "drawn out" rather than stretched, a compound adjective that gets hyphenated before a noun and can be used with no hyphen if it follows the noun it modifies.
I think dashes would indicate an emphatic or deliberate way of speaking, but not necessarily drawn out.
For reference's sake, "faaavorite" "faaaavorite" and "faaaaavorite" all get tens of thousands of hits on google.
Relatedly, I'd personally call this speech pattern "drawn out" rather than stretched, a compound adjective that gets hyphenated before a noun and can be used with no hyphen if it follows the noun it modifies.
Note from asker:
| This would just emphasize the first syllable, wouldn't it? |
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English term (edited):
favorite (stretched), here
fa-ver- ite
The context suggested that "she stretched each syllable;" therefore the question would be the number of syllables given to the word, which could possibly be 3, with the middle syllable likely pronounced as a "schwa" as most dictionaries suggest. Simply drawing out the "a" is not really dividing the word into syllable, but dwelling on the first vowel, IMHO.
Note from asker:
| I agree with you that a repeated vowel does not really answer the question. I am just not sure how to spell the word to convey the character's action |
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