• wieson@feddit.de
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    4 months ago

    Usually english speakers are the candidates with the problems of homophones, because every unstressed syllable becomes a shwa.

    To demonstrate: jeebus, jeebis, jeebes, jeebos and jeebas can all sound the same in English.

    Other languages haven’t the same problem.

    But even in English you would probably say /painus/ and not /peenus/, wouldn’t you?

    For example in German “Penis” is pronounced with an /eh/ for the ‘e’ and an /ih/ for the ‘i’. And Pinus has a distinct /ih/ and /oo/ . Not an /ai/ for the ‘i’.

    In conclusion, it should sound distinct in many languages.