Talk:constant

Dutch pronunciation
For the sense "continuous, unceasing" I more often tend to use, especially when I use it adverbially, a stress placement that I didn't yet find in a dictionary. I think I have heard others also using it for "invariable" as in constante snelheid, but I am not entirely sure. Are any of you familiar with that pronunciation? ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  08:41, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
 * In this clip (at t=0:55) I hear indeed “Ik ben weer aan het leren”.  --Lambiam 10:05, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
 * To me it's like they stress both syllables, making it sound like a compound word. —Rua (mew) 12:13, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes, it sort of sounds like that to me as well. I think I hear . ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  18:49, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
 * To me it's "De hoeveelheid natrium is .", but "Waarom zit je te zeuren?". I have heard both. NL, BE Brabant?, BE (first) NL, NL (second) Thadh (talk) 13:35, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Funnily enough, I would pronounce it as "Waarom zeur je ?" Thadh (talk) 13:44, 16 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the feedback. Do you think should be qualified as uncommon/less common or specified per sense? Thadh's final comment suggests that word order may play a role; it's interesting that the last example actually 'breaks' a meter that would otherwise have been perfectly trochaic.
 * I also wonder whether it's a recent innovation or not, since older dictionaries don't have it; could it have been influenced by English ? ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  18:49, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
 * My last comment may be my personal bugs. Anyway, with my references in mind, I think both pronunciations are used interchangeably or at least parallelly, so I'd just . Thadh (talk) 21:56, 16 October 2020 (UTC)