bsod
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I'm a relatively new Spiritual Satanist, slowly getting into the practices.
While reading information regarding mantras, vibration of the runes, and the RTRs, I find myself uncertain in about the proper pronunciation of certain syllables, even though there are American English words with approximate pronunciations, this can be ambiguous as there are many accents, furthermore not all of the Sanskrit, Hebrew, and Germanic phonemes have a way of being transcribed in American English spelling. Though the audio files and descriptions of how to pronounce do help.
My suggestion is to transcribe the syllables using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) so there is absolutely zero ambiguity to pronunciation, as many people are possibly doing them incorrectly. The IPA has a symbol for each sound, for example /θ/ for the 'th' in "thunder", or /ð/ for the 'th' in "that", which as you can see are different sounds which cannot be distinguished by spelling alone, I notice this error was made on the page about runes. Sanskrit has retroflex and breathy consonants which are difficult to transcribe in English as our phonology does not make such a distinction. Hebrew has Semitic glottal consonants which can be very difficult to explain to English speakers. I suggest to use the IPA to make it easier to learn how to pronounce these syllables.
https://www.ipachart.com/
This website features every phoneme found in every human language. You can click on the phoneme to listen to what sound it makes. I suggest to use this website to map all of the runic vibrations, Hebrew letters, and Mantras to IPA transcription.
While reading information regarding mantras, vibration of the runes, and the RTRs, I find myself uncertain in about the proper pronunciation of certain syllables, even though there are American English words with approximate pronunciations, this can be ambiguous as there are many accents, furthermore not all of the Sanskrit, Hebrew, and Germanic phonemes have a way of being transcribed in American English spelling. Though the audio files and descriptions of how to pronounce do help.
My suggestion is to transcribe the syllables using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) so there is absolutely zero ambiguity to pronunciation, as many people are possibly doing them incorrectly. The IPA has a symbol for each sound, for example /θ/ for the 'th' in "thunder", or /ð/ for the 'th' in "that", which as you can see are different sounds which cannot be distinguished by spelling alone, I notice this error was made on the page about runes. Sanskrit has retroflex and breathy consonants which are difficult to transcribe in English as our phonology does not make such a distinction. Hebrew has Semitic glottal consonants which can be very difficult to explain to English speakers. I suggest to use the IPA to make it easier to learn how to pronounce these syllables.
https://www.ipachart.com/
This website features every phoneme found in every human language. You can click on the phoneme to listen to what sound it makes. I suggest to use this website to map all of the runic vibrations, Hebrew letters, and Mantras to IPA transcription.
