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A comment on It’s Hard to Learn French in Middle Age. Parent comment

Re:It’s Hard to Learn French in Middle Age by davidivadavid on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @11:05AM (#19788571)
Nope. Two syllables is correct, as you can see by looking at the IPA transliteration, /də ʁjɛ̃/.
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Re:It’s Hard to Learn French in Middle Age by bgilroy26 on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @11:25AM (#19788776)
"j" is a semi-vowel so you're both right!
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Re:It’s Hard to Learn French in Middle Age by foldr on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @12:28PM (#19789388)
Could you expand on that? Semivowels don't usually give rise to any uncertainty regarding syllable boundaries. E.g. Spanish 'tieso' clearly has two syllables (though many English speakers would misperceive it as having three), and it also has a semivowel following the initial consonant:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tieso

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