These sentences essentially take the same time to say because the stressed syllables still dictate the timing of the sentence. The unimportant, unstressed syllables are tucked in between, and are often reduced—such as “will” reduced to apostrophe “ll.” In Chinese, however, every syllable has...
That apostrophe you see on the O of Irish surnames is an Anglicization of a “síneadh fada,” an acute accent slanting to the right.A fada above a vowel means the vowel should be pronounced “long”– which is what fada means in Irish. Fadas are often dropped in English, but in Iri...