zeogold: Exactly how it looks.
Something like "kah pah".
timppu: WTF? Where does the "h" come there? Why don't you pronounce the P that is there: "ka
p pa"? That's how you pronounce it if you pronounce how it is written. :)
A bit like I presume you'd pronounce "cap", do you pronounce it also as "cah"? And how would you pronounce "kapa", does it sound different from "kappa"?
You Englishers make pronunciation far more complicated that it needs to be, it is like you try to guess with each new and strange word how you should try to pronounce it. Don't guess, just pronounce it.
I was just trying to write it in a way that could easily be understood how I say it in my head. I'm not very good at it.
I think of the "a" sound to be more like in "ah" than in "cap" (a British sort of sound?) but that's just a minor sort of tomato-tomahto thing, probably more a result of my Californian accent (if such a thing even exists).
For "kapa", I mentally resort back to that "cap" sound (back to the American "a" sounding way).
i'm sure if I knew those symbols employed by the dictionary, this would be a lot easier.
paladin181: Yeah. They should have the good sense to realize THEY'RE the foreigners!!! :P
plagren: There are no foreigners... we're all living in Amerika. Amerika ist wunderbar.
I know, right? Nobody ever seems to understand the proper naming of the continents:
America/'Murica (commonly known as the U.S.A.)
Polite America (commonly known as Canada)
Spanish-speaking America (commonly known as Central America and South America)
Stuffy America (commonly known as Europe)
Weird America (commonly known as Asia)
NAAAAAANTS AMERIKAAAAA, BAGITHI BABAAAAAA (commonly known as Africa)
Troll America (commonly known as Australia or Oceania)
Really, Really Freakin' Cold America (commonly known as Antarctica)