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Re:Céu: Structured Synchronous Reactive Programming by kyllo on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @08:04PM (#9855437)
Which pronunciation of Seoul is it like? The way Koreans pronounce it? The way Americans pronounce it? The way Europeans pronounce it?

I'm confused because Seoul doesn't have an 'e' sound in it at all, in Korean.

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Re:Céu: Structured Synchronous Reactive Programming by agumonkey on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @08:42PM (#9855571)
Is the 'e' skipped [soul] ? almost silent [s_oul] ? or a transition like [s~woul] ?

ps: forgot about https://translate.google.com/#en/ko/seoul, according to them it's not entirely silent.

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Re:Céu: Structured Synchronous Reactive Programming by kyllo on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @11:27PM (#9856007)
어 (transliterated as either "eo" or "uh") is a vowel that I would describe as like the "u" sound in the word "fun" but with the mouth open a bit wider.

It's nothing like any of the sounds an "e" can represent in English.

Europeans tend to pronounce it "See-OOL" which is just completely wrong.

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Re:Céu: Structured Synchronous Reactive Programming by devonkim on Thursday July 09, 2015 @07:40AM (#9857273)
It's a bit longer, always morphemic version of a schwa I believe.
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Re:Céu: Structured Synchronous Reactive Programming by kyllo on Thursday July 09, 2015 @01:54AM (#9856357)
In International Phonetic Alphabet it's [sʰʌ.ul].

The vowel ʌ is described as "between pearl and pull, with spread lips"

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