Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-30602727-20140827000707/@comment-32500188-20140918094254

@ Trains: Seconding what Umbreon said. A lot of folks tend to make the mistake of doing literal phonemes based off the words and not the actual sounds produced, which end up putting out some weird sounding results.

This is what I found works for me when it comes to those "tr" words:

[tS M] [4 a i] [n]: 1st note, make it real small (I usually go for 64th triplet notes and adjust from there), 2nd note, make that take up the majority of the duration of the note you're putting the lyric to, and 3rd another small-valued note length to complete the note length. (You can also replace the 'n' phonetic with any of the other N sounds if needed, but I find that particular one works fairly well with both transitions into other notes and the actual pronunciation of the Engrished word. :-)

[tS M] [4 a] [s M_0] [t M_0] or [tS M] [4 o] [s M_0] [t M_0] - same deal for this one, make the beginning note to mimic the starting sound for "tr" very short, your "uh" sound should take up the majority of the duration, and make the last two consonant sounds very short as well.

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Oh God... it's going to be my third day of work, and the right side of my throat is feeling a bit sore. It doesn't help that a child I was doing one-on-one work with on my first day actually had strep. (Very sweet kid, I don't put them at fault for that... but really it would have been nice to have known something like that beforehand, or better yet, for the parents to have kept them home if there were any complaints of a sore throat that morning, which was admitted.) I do NOT want to have that crap in my throat again, and I've been gargling salt water and ACV for the past couple of hours hoping to get rid of the soreness. So far, not having much luck, and I have to leave in a few hours... plus I'm sleepy.

Sheesh... I really hope I'm not catching that stuff again, because it wasn't fun the last time I had it and it literally closed off my throat to the point I couldn't talk at all... and I was so close to being clean from annoying illnesses for almost a year now. (A;) I can't afford to take off when I'm just starting out, but I also don't want to be another catalyst to making other people around me sick. Hopefully I can scrounge up the cash to go to the nearest walk-in clinic this weekend and get checked out, since insurance doesn't kick in for a while...